Blackwell's Island

Quirky mobster Bull (Stanley Fields) playing with pets and his moll (Peggy Shannon) receives brash reporter Hayden (John Garfield) who’s not backing down, crooked pol Cardigan (Morgan Conway) near the end, in Blackwell’s Island, 1939, story and screenplay by Crane Wilbur.

Rapid intro of three top-billed stars, John Garfield as reporter Tim (Joe Cunningham his boss), fired then re-hired for exposing a waterfront racket, meeting nurse Sunny (Rosemary Lane) through her cop brother (Dick Purcell), while trying to visit the bad guy’s victim, in Blackwell’s Island, 1939.

Reporter Tim (John Garfield), helped by witness Sunny (Rosemary Lane) and his editor (Joe Cunningham) slugs the D-A (Leon Ames) so he can get into the jail being run by gangster inmate Bull, where neighbor Benny (Charley Foy) shows him some ropes, in Blackwell’s Island, 1939.

In order to expose a mobster, reporter John Garfield has himself sent to the prison on Blackwell's Island (1939).