Sleepers East (1934)

No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson Wynne Gibson hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworths drunken lout of a son shoots the owner Wentworths political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their reelection campaign Callahans mouthpiece nabs Lena first conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss A midnight special smashup a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox preCode programmer released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934