Given the film's extremes of emotion and behavior and the ever lowering clouds of Fate, it should come as no surprise that Douglas Sirk was at the helm, even if its noirish curlicues may seem like foreign soil for the director of such florid weepies as Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation of Life (1959). Lewis' Gun Crazy (1950), the hardcases of Shockproof are, however steely in the face of danger, powerless in the palm of their passions. As in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night (1948), Harold Daniels' Roadblock (1951) and Joseph H. Share Shockproof (1949) belongs to a minority of crime films that are all about the love. Harry is still in the hospital, but he tells the police that the shooting was an accident, assuring Griff and Jenny that they can now live an honest life together. Eventually a photograph of the couple appears in the newspapers and, tired of running, Jenny insists that they give themselves up. There, Jenny dyes her hair, and Griff gets a job working at an oil refinery. They are recognized before they can cross the border, but manage to escape to another state on a bus. Griff then resolves to escape to Mexico with Jenny. Convinced that Jenny shot Harry, he coldly decides to turn her in, but his mother is sure that Jenny shot Harry out of love for Griff. Griff finds a severely wounded Harry, along with a note from Jenny begging Harry to take her away. Later Harry telephones Griff, saying that he has information about his wife. Griff encounters him there, and the two men quarrel. After the marriage, Jenny breaks off her connection with Harry, causing him to come to Griff's house to speak to her. Determined to spare Griff, Jenny runs away, but Griff goes after her and insists that they get married secretly. Although she refuses, Harry encourages her to go through with the marriage because by thus breaking her parole, she would quash Griff's political ambitions. Later that night, Griff asks Jenny to marry him. She turns down the opportunity to leave, and because he knows that Harry arranged the transfer, Griff is pleased. One night, when they are alone, Griff tells Jenny that his office received a request for her transfer to San Francisco. Jenny meets secretly with Harry, begging him to help her leave town because she believes that Griff is falling in love with her, but Harry suggests that she encourage Griff's infatuation. Because she lost her job after the raid, Griff offers her a position caring for his mother during the day in return for room and board. She admits that she would do anything for him, including murder. At first, Jenny is angry and tells Griff that Harry is the only man who was ever kind to her. Griff also picks up his younger brother Tommy, Tommy's friend Barry and Fred Bauer, another parolee, and brings the whole group to his house, where he lives with Tommy and their blind mother. He offers to take her to dinner, and she is forced to accept. Even though Jenny realizes that Harry is a bad influence, she makes a date with him, but when she leaves her room to go meet him, she finds Griff waiting for her. Despite her violation, Griff believes that Jenny will successfully straighten out her life, an opinion that is reinforced by the psychologist who examines her. Later, Jenny is picked up during a raid on the bookie joint where Harry took her. Griff helps Jenny find a place to live and a job, but Jenny resumes her relationship with Harry, despite Griff's warning. He also warns her to stay away from Harry Wesson, who was partially responsible for her involvement in crime. When ex-convict Jenny Marsh visits her Los Angeles parole officer, Griff Marat, he lists the conditions of her parole: she must report to him every day and she must not carry a weapon or get married.
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