Illegal

This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.

Cast

Isobel Elsom

as Mrs. Evelyn Dean

Ivor Barnard

as Albert

D.A. Clarke-Smith

as Franklyn Dean (as D.E. Clarke-Smith)

Margot Grahame

as Dorothy Turner

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