Years of abuse leads to the oldest living orphan (Cleo Moore) to steal $25,000 from her late father's old partner (Leonid Snegoff). She blames him for ripping her father off, and willingly goes to prison just so the jerk who mistreated her can feel the loss her father must have felt. As time goes by, she prepares to get out of prison, and being a model prisoner, that isn't long at all. She intents to dig up the money and scram but circumstances prevent her from playing "Grab That Dough!". Working for a club owner (Hugo Haas) whom she thinks betrayed her leads to "murder", and while facing reality, Moore must come up with a clever way of disposing the cash she later located, resulting in an ironic conclusion.
An amusing but hokey and preposterous story has Moore being both good and bad, weather beaten from being used by men, yet unable to make it on her own without their help. She's amusing to watch as she plots revenge against both her evil care-giver, then becoming "Miss Popularity" in prison, then eye candy for her employer whom she conks over the head to get out of his clutches. It's melodramatic fun with a plot twist similarly utilized by Whoopie Goldberg in "Ghost". Glenn Langan provides quiet macho morality as her fisherman love interest, with Ellen Stansbury as Haas's girlfriend who stumbles upon Moore and the supposed corpse.
An amusing but hokey and preposterous story has Moore being both good and bad, weather beaten from being used by men, yet unable to make it on her own without their help. She's amusing to watch as she plots revenge against both her evil care-giver, then becoming "Miss Popularity" in prison, then eye candy for her employer whom she conks over the head to get out of his clutches. It's melodramatic fun with a plot twist similarly utilized by Whoopie Goldberg in "Ghost". Glenn Langan provides quiet macho morality as her fisherman love interest, with Ellen Stansbury as Haas's girlfriend who stumbles upon Moore and the supposed corpse.