Made right at the height of the Communist Influence in Hollywood. It was written by a guy named John Marquand and screenplay by someone named Luther Davis.
I tried too watch this piece of junk one night on TCM and gave up on it. Too Blatantly Communist.
Another one from that same year was “Force of Evil,” with John Garfield, which pretty much expressed the subtext that organized crime and capitalism were soulmates. That film always annoyed me.
However, although we’re all pointing out some of these examples of leftist thinking inserted into Hollywood scripts, it is true that the vast, overwhelming majority of 1930s/40s film fare avoided this kind of thing like the plague. There were roughly 400 films made each year back then, and actually, only a scattered few were really guilty of pro-commie leanings.