Paid to Dance
- Don Terry: William Dennis
- Julie Bishop: Joan Bradley
- Rita Hayworth: Betty Morgan
- Arthur Loft: Jack Miranda
- Paul Fix: Nifty
- Paul Stanton: Charles Kennedy
- John Gallaudet: Barney Wilson
- Louise Stanley: Phyllis Parker
Paid to Dance, also known as Hard to Hold, is an American crime film starring Rita Hayworth from the year 1937. Served as pattern a story by Leslie T. White.
Action
The nightclub owner Jack Miranda is suspected to operate with the hostesses of his premises a white slavery ring. For this reason, Agent William Dennis is instructed to take Miranda under the microscope. To this end, he pretends to be a theater agent who opened his new office directly opposite the Club. What he and the authorities, however, do not know is that Miranda is under the protection of the influential politician Charles Kennedy. Williams girlfriend and partner Joan Bradley is now also inject into the environment of the premises and, therefore, takes a job as a dancer. Then she tries to make friends with the other girls of the club, especially with the self-assured Betty Morgan, who leads the troupe. As it turns out, the young ladies must be wealthy guests not only on the dance floor at your service. Joan's information to the police finally had enough reason to close the club and arrest some of Miranda's henchmen.
As Miranda Joan comes with her research on the ropes, he locks her in the basement. William, meanwhile, learns from politicians Kennedy's dubious connections to Miranda. Kennedy now wants to get rid of the undercover agent to continue to keep his shady transactions under wraps. But Kennedy's plan to let William tied up in a car plunge down a slope fails, because William succeeds to the last moment free himself from his predicament. When he and the police eventually arrive in the office of the politician goes astray, it is mortally wounded in the following exchange of fire and Miranda was arrested shortly afterwards. When William Joan free, this falls into the arms of his relieved.
Background
Produced by Columbia Pictures B- movie Paid to Dance was created in 1937, one month after the release of the Warner Brothers film Murder at the nightclub, in the Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart played the lead roles. Both films deal with the girls trade affair of the legendary mobster Lucky Luciano, who was sentenced in 1936 to several years in prison.
Reviews
According to Daily Variety, the film had " all the characteristics to be produced with a minimum of cost and effort ." "Should be convicted of the first film in the recent past, which to be shown instead to life in custody without any chance of parole, to keep the unsuspecting viewer away " for the Los Angeles Daily News was Paid to Dance.