A nice little item from 1950, the movie tells the tale of a good girl who does some bad things who gets involved with a bad guy quite capable of doing good things. The plot is nicely developed for a Republic B, and the lead actors, Gerald Mohr and Dorothy Patrick, are surprisingly effective.
Because the only thing the "Blonde Bandit" steals is the heart of a gangster. Dorothy Patrick plays Gloria Dell, a girl who comes to the big city from Kansas to be married to a guy she's never met before, but has been corresponding with for quite some time.
When a femme fatale has something up her sleeve other than knocking off a husband for his accident insurance, seducing a naive man as part of an evil agenda or simply to get the easy life, she's usually on the up and up trying to get out of a wretched relationship, win the man she loves, OE in the case of Dorothy Patrick, aiding the law to expose a crooked bookie. Aided by detective Robert Rockwell after being framed in a jewelry store robbery, Patrick begins to date her new boss, bookie Gerald Mohr, and finds herself in danger.
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