The Trial of Mary Dugan

Laraine Day stars as the put-upon title character in this remake of a 1929 film. Robert Young is her love interest. Marsha Hunt is her friend who seems more at home in a Damon Runyon story. Tom Conway plays the most sympathetic role of his life as the nicest boss ever. It's a good cast for a fairly routine B movie.

Laraine Day is trying her best here in what was I believe her first starring vehicle. My biggest pet peeve is the repetition of scenes like this throughout the movie: someone will ask her a question and she will reply "No! That is...er...I...uh..." as she thinks of a lie. It's annoying and it happens quite a bit. But despite this nitpick I enjoyed the picture. Some will complain about how it sanitizes the original story but in my opinion grittier is not always better.