
Mildred Pierce(1945)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

Richard Cromwell
Jimmy Caldwell

Helen Mack
Ruth Holden

Lionel Atwill
Mike Roberts

Horace McMahon
Blackie Clayton

Russ Powell
Chief Ira Foster

Billy Bevan
McLean

Marjorie Main
Martha Foster

Rex Evans
Victor J. Holbrook

Joseph Crehan
District Attorney

Arthur Hoyt
Beamish
The Wrong Road is a crime, drama film released in 1937 exploring themes of husband wife relationship, release from prison, bank robbery, insurance investigator, hidden loot. Directed by James Cruze, it stars Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, Lionel Atwill. A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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