Sinners' Holiday

Sinners' Holiday is a 1930 crime drama film starring Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney (in his film debut), Lucille La Verne, and Joan Blondell. It is based on the play Penny Arcade by Marie Baumer. Both Cagney and Blondell reprised their Broadway roles. It is preserved at the Library of Congress. Ma Delano runs a penny arcade at Coney Island with her family, but one Harry gets involved in bootlegging despite his mother's warnings and accidentally shoots a man. Harry confides this with his mother and she decides it's her duty to help her son. She and Joe decide to frame Jennie's boyfriend (whom Ma Delano doesn't approve). However, unbeknownst to them, Jennie actually witnessed the shooting and while Detective Sikes is taking her...