Deleted Role: Originally, Patricia Morison appeared onscreen as Nick's wife Maria, who's attacked and raped by a gangster who is supposed to be watching out for her while Nick is in prison, and shortly thereafter commits suicide by sticking her head in the kitchen oven and turning on the gas. Both scenes were cut from the original print at the insistence of the Hays Office, which wanted no depiction of either a rape or a suicide, so she does not appear in the film at all. Mention is made later in the film about Maria's suicide and an indirect statement is made by Nettie that the unseen gangster Rizzo contributed to her downfall.
