The Final Two Minutes (spoilers)

Don't know. Seriously. She's led back to jail after the trial. He goes back there and meets up before she's locked in her cell. They're holding each other, talking, he says - why did you do that? She said she had to. He wants to get the judge right then and get married, she's reluctant and doesn't want to do it, she says she would only bring his life down, that she was too stubborn at being her and he was too stubborn at being him and it wouldn't really get them anywhere together, that she has to be in jail for her crime and it will also give him time to think about if he really wants to, he says no, let's get married now. She doesn't say yes but she asks him if he'll stand beside her and hold her hand during sentencing and he says he would and she's crying but then she gets a smile on her face and says she loves him, The End.

Genuinely surprised me. This Lady Or The Tiger stuff happens way too much these days because of lazy writers. But you don't really see it back then in movies - especially when it's involving crime because The Code said the bad guys always gotta be punished. They got away with doing what they did by having her say she was guilty and accepting whatever punishment happens. But the film never says what the judge's ruling was and we don't know if they got married.

Again, I'm getting sick of this kind of "ending" in modern movies, but I liked it here not just because it's rare for a movie back then to do it. It suits the tension Stanwyck and MacMurray had the entire story. Did they really fall in love? Or did they eventually realize they were too incompatable? Today, no one would give a $hit about Stanwyck's character's past, but back then it was pretty bad, which would have meant the ending's questions would have packed more of a wallop.