Gun Girls

In the city, a breeding ground for female juvenile delinquents neglected by their parents, Dora Jones, Joy Jenkins and gang leader Teddy are brought before the probation officer. He warns Teddy's parents that if they do not pay closer attention to their daughter, she will become a major criminal. Although Teddy's mother vows she will watch over the teenager, and Dora's boyfriend Jimmy chastises her for her involvement in the gang, both girls are soon planning their next crime. That night, they flirt with men at a bar so they can lure them into an alley and rob them, knowing the men will not report the incident because the girls are underage. At the boardinghouse room they rent as a hangout, the girls discuss their alcoholic, uncaring parents and plan to buy a gun, which Dora hopes will make her "a somebody." They visit their fence, Joy's boyfriend Joe, who sells them two guns but warns that they should use them carefully. Before leaving, Joe watches lasciviously as the girls hide the guns in their stockings, while Teddy looks longingly at Joe's hoard of cash. Soon, the girls perpetrate a series of holdups, stealing jewels as well as money. They bring the goods to Joe, who worries that he cannot safely sell so much loot and proposes that they partner with Joy to rob the warehouse at which she works. Planning to burglarize Friday night's payroll shipment, Teddy blackmails Joy into agreeing to let her and Dora in the back gate, threatening to tell Joy's mother about her relationship with Joe if she refuses. Friday afternoon, the probation officer congratulates Teddy on her clean record, for which Teddy's mother takes full responsibility. At the same time, Jimmy is crushed when Dora tells him she cannot accompany him to that night's school dance. Later, the girls borrow a car from two male friends and enter the warehouse, with Joy's help. As they are opening the safe, however, the watchman hears the noise and comes in to investigate. Teddy knocks him unconscious with the gun and grabs the safe contents, after which the girls run to the back fence. The watchman regains consciousness in time to lock the gate, however, and the girls are forced to abandon the car and climb over the gate. At the boardinghouse, they discover that the safe contained only fourteen dollars. While the girls quarrel over the botched job, Joe is romancing his newest conquest, Trixie. When Teddy and Dora go to him to ask for getaway money, Joe spurns them, furious to learn that they dropped one of his guns in the warehouse. Teddy then pulls out the remaining gun and robs Joe of his savings. Later, Joy informs Joe that she is pregnant, but he refuses to marry her and throws her out. Soon after, the police trace the car left at the warehouse to the boys who lent it to Teddy, and through them learn the girls' identities. The three girls meet at the boardinghouse, where Teddy and Dora warn Joy to run, but instead she asks for the loan of the remaining gun. She takes it to Joe's, where he is trysting with Trixie, and shoots him repeatedly. As the neighbors gather, Joy calls the police and turns herself in. Meanwhile, the police come to the boardinghouse, and Teddy and Dora jump into their car and give chase, but a few miles out of town, their car crashes. As Dora lies near death in the hospital, Jimmy visits. Dora tells Jimmy that she should have listened to him, and the probation officer, but because her parents never wanted her, she joined the gang in order to find a sense of belonging. As she slips away, Jimmy weeps for her wasted life.