One Way Passage (1932)

ONE WAY PASSAGE  (1932)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Tay Garnett
    William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline McMahon,
    Frank McHugh, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin
Two people meet and fall for each other on an ocean liner sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The catch: She's dying and he's on his way to San Quentin to be hanged. A sparkling comic romance with an understandably dark edge, nicely played by the two leads. Frank McHugh overdoes it as a garrulous pickpocket, but Aline McMahon is so good playing a grifter posing as a countess, you wish she had her own movie to grift around in.