Public Enemy's Wife (1936)

• Director
  • Nick Grinde
• Writers
  • Abem Finkel(screen play)
  • Harold Buckley(screen play)
  • P.J. Wolfson(story)
• Stars
  • Pat O'Brien
  • Margaret Lindsay
  • Robert Armstrong

  Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real culprit is her jailbird husband (Cesar Romero), a smooth jewel thief with a jealous streak. Margaret hopes to put her past behind her by taking up with a society man (Dick Foran), keeping the affair secret lest her fugitive husband kill her lover. Released in England as G-Man's Wife (Lindsay ends up with government agent Pat O'Brien), Public Enemy's Wife was based on a story co-written by none other than David O. Selznick. The film was remade as a 50-minute "B," Bullets for O'Hara (41), with a young Anthony Quinn as the criminal and Joan Perry (later the wife of Columbia chieftain Harry Cohn) as his wife.