Big Town After Dark ~ 1947 -BW

QUICKIE: PDMRB rule #9: Some girls are just bad.

PLOT: When Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) leaves her job as the police reporter for the Illustrated Press, Managing Editor Steve Wilson (Philip Reed) employs the publisher's niece, Susan Peabody (Ann Gillis), to replace her. Susan becomes involved with gangsters in plotting a $50,000 swindle against her uncle, which Steve and the returned Lorelei uncover.

SUMMARY: Oh, she's bad! Sweet little Suzie, has a heart of stone. The neat thing about this movie is that you don't get the whole thing all at once. It slowly develops the story and the characters as we go. By the near end of the movie Suzie comes out as the real monster she is in a great scene displaying her greed and viscousness. We're introduced to her as the "innocent college co-ed", and find out later she's "married to the mob"! Sure, it's the same old newspaper movie story with the "trying to expose the gangsters" plot, and the love interest reporters disrupted by the young reporter thing. But it's still a good, fun film. Maybe because there's a bit more character development going on.