Tonight's Movie: Marked Woman (1937) - A Warner Archive Blu-ray Review

MARKED WOMAN (1937) is a terrific exemplar of '30s Warner Bros. style, featuring an excellent cast in a gritty crime drama.As the movie begins, crime boss Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Ciannelli) has taken over a nightclub which is actually a clip joint, taking customers for as much money as possible through highly questionable means.The club's "hostesses," including Mary (Bette Davis), are expected to help lighten the guests' wallets and must also turn over some of their tips in return for "protection," including the lawyers they will sometimes need.Mary has increasingly bad experiences under Vanning's rule, including a "client" who writes a bad check being murdered, which leads to her spending time in jail. Eventually the dark goings-on reach Mary's innocent kid sister (Jane Bryan)... Can assistant district attorney David Graham (Humphrey Bogart) put Vanning in prison at long last?This is an engrossing 96 minutes with a typical Warner Bros. cast of the era, including John Litel, Allen…