I was kind of enjoying it in the first 15 minutes when Edward G is getting c0cky with the district attorney. Then he gets shipped off to Alcatraz while handcuffed to a beautiful young John Carradine.
Problem is that prison is just a sideshow. An excuse for some brawling. None of those scenes really matter to the plot.
The meat of the story is that Robinson loves his newborn kid but treats the mom like she's merely the baby factory. Predictably, she wanders off with the sympathetic newspaper reporter played by Jimmy Stewart.
Who in 1937 was going to an Edward G picture to watch earnest Jimmy Stewart making moon faces at a baby. Or watch a marginally attractive actress spout her dialogue with a thick Austrian accent.
Problem is that prison is just a sideshow. An excuse for some brawling. None of those scenes really matter to the plot.
The meat of the story is that Robinson loves his newborn kid but treats the mom like she's merely the baby factory. Predictably, she wanders off with the sympathetic newspaper reporter played by Jimmy Stewart.
Who in 1937 was going to an Edward G picture to watch earnest Jimmy Stewart making moon faces at a baby. Or watch a marginally attractive actress spout her dialogue with a thick Austrian accent.