YOU AND ME (1938)

This was a first time ever screening for TCM, and myself as well.


Fritz Lang directs this "Christmas noir"- a story of how crime doesn't pay.
Sylvia Sidney is Helen, a parolee working at Morris department store as a clerk. There she meets another ex-con clerk Joe (George Raft), whom she marries.
The owner of the store makes a practice out of hiring ex-cons, and they are not to date each other or marry.
Helen kept the truth about her past from Joe, and when he finds out, he becomes disillusioned.
He's so disillusioned he plots to rob the store.
Great little "morality" movie that I'd never seen before.
The ending has a double surprise twist. (Triple if you include the "Hour for Ecstasy"...)