Harlem After Midnight

After her gangster husband Jerry Martin was sent to prison three years earlier, Vivian Poret began dating Nelson Gentry, the son of her employer, Charley. Nelson urges Vivian to get an annulment so that they can be married. When Jerry, known as Jerry "The Snitch," because he snitched on his gang, escapes from prison, he learns that Vivian is living well in Harlem and decides to visit her. Although Vivian offers Jerry five hundred dollars, her life savings, to grant her a divorce, he refuses to cooperate and demands ten times that amount, which he tells her to get from the Gentrys. Meanwhile, Nelson ends his affair with Kate Elkins, a kept woman, and she determines to take revenge on him. Kate soon finds an opportunity to get her revenge when Vivian's younger sister, Sacha, comes to New York in the hope of becoming an entertainer. Kate and Jerry, united in their animosity towards Vivian, decide to have Jerry's pal Harold Stokes befriend Sacha and lead her astray. After gaining Vivian's trust, Harold takes Sacha out and offers to help further her career if she promises to keep subsequent meetings with him a secret from her sister. Harold is actually planning to sell her to an old man for his pleasure, but Sacha realizes her error in time and confesses to Vivian that she has learned her lesson. Kate knows that Jerry smokes marijuana and is a "reefer addict," and eventually becomes nervous when she learns that a man he informed on years earlier is now after him. The police are tipped off to raid Kate's, where Jerry has hidden Razoff, a wealthy Jew whom he kidnapped to collect a $10,000 reward. Jerry manages to avoid capture in the raid and tries, once again, to get money from Vivian, but she refuses.