In Girls Can Play Rita Hayworth is in another of her apprentice film where she
is the girlfriend of racketeer John Gallaudet. She is the catcher on a women's
softball league team which his chain of drugstores sponsors. The drugstores
however sells untaxed booze which undercuts the competition. Presumably in
this state there is no State Liquor Authority to enforce the laws or there are no
laws. Exactly what Gallaudet's racket was is rather unclear.
But Rita knows too much and it gets her killed. She is third billed in this B film from Columbia where the stars are Charles Quigley and Julie Bishop. Quigley is a sports reporter who wants the crime beat and Bishop is a girl on the softball team with an arm like Dizzy Dean.
The story is not terribly coherent, maybe it was butchered in the editing department. Rita shows some personality here and you know big things were going to come her way. This is also a chance to see Guinn William as something other than a hood or a lunkhead. Williams plays a homicide cop who works with Quigley.
But Rita knows too much and it gets her killed. She is third billed in this B film from Columbia where the stars are Charles Quigley and Julie Bishop. Quigley is a sports reporter who wants the crime beat and Bishop is a girl on the softball team with an arm like Dizzy Dean.
The story is not terribly coherent, maybe it was butchered in the editing department. Rita shows some personality here and you know big things were going to come her way. This is also a chance to see Guinn William as something other than a hood or a lunkhead. Williams plays a homicide cop who works with Quigley.