

Everyone on the force gets a turkey from him, and the rich and not-so-rich get a chance to get in good with the law.īailey’s romantically involved (at the start of this mess, anyway) with Ruby, who owns a saucy nightclub and has a kid brother who happens to enjoy both women and robbing banks. The bulk of the movie follows Bill Bailey whose bail bonds business is built like a political machine (say that five times fast). Okay, there’s some racy stuff that leads up to that (Elaine has a thing for bad boys and petty larceny), and it’s not clear whether Elaine is doing it to punish herself or because she’ll probably enjoy it, but it’s a hell of an ending for the character.Īnd since Elaine is easily the most interesting part of the film, it’s a pretty heady sucker punch regardless. “Give me that ad!”Īnd Elaine runs over to the elevator. I had to fight my way out the office! My arm is bruised black and blue! He slapped me– look at my jaw!”Įlaine snatches the newspaper from her hand. A man named Johnson told me he wanted a model to pose for an art study.

“I just had the most horrible experience I ever had in my life! I went upstairs to answer a this ad. Moments after coming to the crushing realization that she’s ruined everything she cared for, she runs into a woman exiting the elevator in a huff.

A socialite named Elaine has spent the movie ricocheting between two men only to be slapped by one and spited by the other. The ending to Blood Money is an ending I think I’ve never seen before and highly doubt I’ll ever see again.
