SINS'S PAY DAY aka Slums of New York (1932) Dorothy Revier & Mickey Rooney | Crime, Drama | B&W

Sin's Pay Day is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Lloyd Whitlock, Dorothy Revier and Mickey Rooney. It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature. It was later reissued under the alternative title Slums of New York with advertising material devoting greater attention to child actor Rooney, who had since emerged as a star at MGM.

SYNOPSIS
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.

Attorney Robert Webb makes a good living as a defense lawyer for gangsters. This disgusts his wife who leaves him and goes to set up a charitable clinic. After getting a notorious mob leader acquitted on a technicality, Webb develops a conscience and turns to alcohol letting his practice collapse. Living on the streets, he is befriended by a boy who helps him gain his self-respect. When the boy is then killed by a bullet fired from a gangster's gun, Webb goes undercover to pose as a defense lawyer once more while secretly recording the incriminating conversation which he turns over to the police. A reformed man, he and his wife reconcile.

CAST & CREW
Lloyd Whitlock as Robert Webb
Dorothy Revier as Iris Markey
Mickey Rooney as Chubby Dennis
Forrest Stanley as James Markey
Bess Flowers as Jane Webb
Hal Price as Jake Bernheim
Harry Semels as Louie Joe
Paul Panzer as Derelict Drinking Milk

Directed by George B. Seitz
Written by Betty Burbridge, Gene Morgan
Produced by Ralph M. Like, Cliff P. Broughton
Cinematography Jules Cronjager
Edited by Byron Robinson
Production company Action Pictures
Distributed by Mayfair Pictures
Release date March 1, 1932
Running time 61 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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