Night Waitress

Night Waitress

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1936-12-18
Duration:57 min
Director:Lew Landers
Actors:Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Billy Gilbert
Production:RKO Radio Pictures

Overview:

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

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