Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

• Director
  • Lewis Seiler
• Writers
  • Robert Rossen(screen play)
  • Jerome Odlum(novel)
  • Seton I. Miller(uncredited)
• Stars
  • John Garfield
  • Priscilla Lane
  • Alan Hale

  John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Garfield is promptly arrested as a vagrant and sent to a work farm. He falls in love with Priscilla Lane, stepdaughter of the farm's no-good foreman. Garfield marries Priscilla, but his happiness is short-lived when the foreman drunkenly goads him into a fight. Arrested again for killing the foreman, Garfield is defended by a compassionate attorney (Moroni Olsen), whose summation to the jury places the blame for Garfield's plight squarely on the shoulders of Society.