Dorothy Mackaill was very good in this. Charles Middleton also gave a good effort. To think that a woman could be so abused by the attitudes of her time is hard to truly appreciate. Here she was stopped from working by a rotten man and forced into life as a call girl. Then she encounters a "trick" who happens to be that man and accidentally (and erroneously, as it turns out) kills him defending herself. She flees with her boyfriend, who at 1st rejects her for her wanton ways, to Tobago , an island ruled by a sheriff of vile intent. She is housed as the only white woman on the island, in a dive filled with real scum of the earth men.
After she goes crazy with boredom, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, the "murdered" man shows up and puts moves on her and she really kills him with a gun planted on her by the sheriff. Just as she is about to be acquitted, the sheriff informs her he plans to keeps her as his object in his private jail for 6 months on the gun rap. She then falsely confesses to the new killing in order to avoid that fate and, after leaving a love message to her boyfriend, marches off to be hanged.
That Wellman believed that his audience would find such a story and plight acceptable is real indictment of the audience and the times.
After she goes crazy with boredom, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, the "murdered" man shows up and puts moves on her and she really kills him with a gun planted on her by the sheriff. Just as she is about to be acquitted, the sheriff informs her he plans to keeps her as his object in his private jail for 6 months on the gun rap. She then falsely confesses to the new killing in order to avoid that fate and, after leaving a love message to her boyfriend, marches off to be hanged.
That Wellman believed that his audience would find such a story and plight acceptable is real indictment of the audience and the times.