Director: Lloyd Bacon (mmmm bacon)
Starring: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, the delightful Isabel Jewell
Hostesses with the mostest-esleft to right: Mayo Methot, Lola Lane, Bette Davis, Rosalind Marquis, Isabel Jewell
Hard day on the job? Your boss treating you like you're an idiot? Jerks barking at you on the phone? So, let's say you work at this clip joint run by a mobster and you go all night cozying up to guys, trying to get them to lose at craps, hoping to get a cut of the action so you can pay the gas bill. You think you're smart, because so far you've kept going on the dimes they throw you, but you've got this dopey kid sister who gets mixed up in the "fun" and ends up dead. That sucks, huh? Whaddya gonna do about it? You think you're going to talk, do you? Well, let's say the mobster gets his goons to put the double-cross on the side of your face to shut you up.
So, you go to the DA, but he's not going to help you because you lied once to protect your mobster boss. Why should he believe you now? Because he's got it for you, baby. You're his kind of girl, only you're a "hostess" and he's legit and at the end it's just you and the girls walking off into the fog while reporters start primping him for a run at governor.
So think about it, as you watch them saunter away into the dark, leaving the vocal devotees of society's moral code who support justice, but reject those who serve it: working girls looking for a break, hoping to show that they have scruples like anyone else.
They just work crap jobs.
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