- A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. However, the authorities permit her to escape, hoping that she will lead them to her boyfriend.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Mary Burns, who runs a country diner, falls in love with thief and killer Don "Babe" Wilson, believing he is an oilman. When Babe arrives from New York with his partner to retrieve a stash of bonds from the diner, he asks Mary to marry him that night and spend a honeymoon in Canada. Babe has been followed by G-men, however, and a shootout ensues in which Babe shoots a G-man. Babe escapes, but Mary is apprehended as his gun moll. During the trial, Mary is coerced by the prosecutor into confessing she was Babe's accomplice and is sentenced to fifteen years in state prison. After three months in jail, Mary's blonde roommate, Goldie Gordon, once a moll but now an informant for the authorities, helps Mary escape with her. Meanwhile, Babe and his accomplice, "Spike," try to locate Mary because Babe is still obsessed with her. Mary and Goldie get an apartment, which the G-men bug, and Goldie tries to get Mary to confess Babe's whereabouts, but she does not know where he is. Mary, using the alias "Alice Brown," gets a night job in the kitchen of Mercy Hospital, where she meets cantankerous patient Barton Powell, an explorer who is suffering from snow-blindness. When Barton tastes Mary's excellent coffee, he orders her to be his private nurse and she reads to him daily. They fall in love, and he invites her to do secretarial work at his secluded cabin at Lake Marquette, where he will be finishing a book. Meanwhile, Spike arrives at Mary's flat and orders her to accompany him to Babe. The G-men intervene and shoot Spike, and Mary flees the flat and hides in Barton's hospital room. Barton again asks her to come with him and swears his love, but she says good-bye and hops a train to Utah. While the police close in on Babe, he tracks Mary and, armed with a hand grenade in a church in Salt Lake City, forces Mary into his car. A nationwide manhunt ensues, but the couple eludes the police. Mary becomes a taxi dancer in a nightclub in Colinsburg, and one night, a G-man dances with her and outlines a scheme to get Babe. Mary is ordered to write to Babe telling him she has fled to Barton's cabin at Lake Marquette. When Mary refuses to involve Barton, who now knows her true identity, the G-men forge the letter. Harper, from the Department of Justice, arrives at Lake Marquette and tells Barton he, too, believes Mary is innocent. Mary then arrives and Barton, who has regained his sight, sees her for the first time and promises to go to Washington to clear her name. Babe enters and orders Mary at gunpoint to embrace and kiss him. When Babe shoots Barton in the shoulder, Mary pulls the trigger on the gun in Babe's coat pocket and he falls dead. Barton, again in the hospital, makes the headlines as a national hero and secures Mary's pardon. When he drinks his coffee, he knows Mary is close by, and after she enters, they kiss.
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