Inside Job (1946)

Eddie Norton (Alan Curtis) is an ex-con trying to go straight but reduced to acting as a mannequin in a department store window, also working in the store is his wife Claire (Ann Rutherford) who has to endure the company of her lecherous old boss in order to get paid properly. Eddie is recognised by crime boss Bart Madden (Preston Foster) who wants Eddie to relieve the store of all of it's cash...

For someone who is supposed to want to go straight Eddie decides almost in an instant to do the job himself and cut Bart Madden out of the action. Claire also needs little persuading in helping Eddie out with his crime. Eddie and Claire are soon on the run from the police and Bart Madden...

An enjoyable noir crime drama. It doesn't hang around and the audiences' feelings are played with to an extent. The Nortons fall into crime very easily but are seen gaining a huge amount of redemption through their future actions. However crime doesn't pay, well in Hollywood anyway.