(1950)
Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a fur coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime, while everyone he meets is out for what they can get. ca6 Written by Rod Crawford The auto mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) "borrows" twenty dollars from the cash register of the garage where he works to date the blonde waitress Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney) in the weekend. His intention is return the money Monday night, when a friend that owes him the same amount will pay him. However, on Monday morning the accountant finds the negative balance, and Dan tries to cover the embezzlement, falling deeper and deeper in a criminal life. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil