Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge. Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds, another member of the town's political machine. They marry and move to a home on , the town's social pinnacle. Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself.

Starring:

Alice White, Bert Stevens, Carol Brewster, Charles Sherlock, Dale Robertson, David Brian, Dick Elliott, Dick Ryan, Douglas Kennedy, Frank Cady, Frank J Scannell, Fred Clark, Fred Kelsey, Garry Owen, Gertrude Michael, Gladys George, Iris Adrian, James Conaty, James Flavin, Jan Kayne, Joan Crawford, John Gallaudet, John McGuire, Larry J Blake, MA Bogue, M

Genre:

Drama, Romance