Mary Burns, la fugitive

Original title: Mary Burns, Fugitive

1935
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1h 24m

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A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. Howev... Read allA young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. However, the authorities permit her to escape, hoping that she will lead them to her boyfriend.A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. However, the authorities permit her to escape, hoping that she will lead them to her boyfriend.

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6.8/10

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Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Boston Tuesday 30 September 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Omaha Sunday 13 September 1959 on KETV (Channel 7).

Goofs
Dialog indicates that Mary's fifteen year sentence would end in 1950, so she was sentenced in 1935. However, the month-date-day calendar in the court as she is sentenced says it is a Thursday when in 1935 it should have been a Monday.

Quotes
Barton Powell: [to Mary] Well, talk! Say something! You don't know what a relief it is to hear a woman that doesn't sound like morning in the barnyard.

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7/10

mary takes on the gangsters

Sylvia Sidney is Mary, who runs a coffee shop. Her mysterious boyfriend shows up, and says he has to be in Canada that night. She agreees to marry him, but then there's a big shootout, and Mary is off to jail. Brian Donlevy (way before Beau Geste or Glass Key) is in here as Spike. When Mary breaks out of jail, the gang thinks it's a trap to catch the thugs. and maybe it is... Melvyn Douglas is a grouchy patient in the hospital where Mary gets a job. The gangsters and the cops catch up with her, so its a race to see who can catch who first. Sidney was married to bigshot publisher Bennett Cerf (for a whole six months) and starred in Hitchcock's Sabotage the year after this one. Directed by Bill Howard. he started in the silents, and continued into the 1940s. This one is pretty good. some typical gangster movie bits, but it all works.