Night Waitress

Night Waitress

She knew how to handle men...until love taught one man how to handle her!

1936 · 57 min · ★ 6.4 · Romance, Crime, Drama

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

Directed by Lew Landers · Written by Marcus Goodrich

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Margot Grahame Helen Roberts
Gordon Jones Martin Rhodes
Vinton Hayworth George Skinner
Marc Lawrence Dorn
Billy Gilbert Torre
Don 'Red' Barry Mario Rigo
Otto Yamaoka Fong
Paul Stanton District Attorney
Arthur Loft Borgum
Walter Miller Police Inspector
Ernie Adams Diner Who Gets Indigestion
Willie Best Black Pedestrian

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