Slightly Scarlet
Year: 1956
Runtime: 99 mins
Language: English
Director: Allan Dwan
Emerging from a vice‑ridden city’s underbelly, James M. Cain’s most explosive drama follows kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons, freshly paroled and placed under the watch of her sister June, a secretary to the ostensibly “reform” politician Frank Jansen. Crime associate Ben Grace, working for boss Sol “Solly” Caspar, sees an opportunity to smear Jansen’s campaign by using Dorothy. Determined and seductive, Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, even as she becomes entangled with Ben, the very man June secretly loves.
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