Three people down on their luck help each other out during the throes of the Depression.
Bill Keller and Toodles Cooper are in the Army, stationed in Nicaragua. Their plane is shot own and they are presumed dead... then they are found very much alive and drunk in a cantina. This gets them kicked out of the military and back on the mean streets of New York. Bill meets pretty Patricia "Alabama" Brent. Bette's fake accent wavers in and out through the entire movie, which is annoying. Bill invites her to stay on the sofa in the little flat he and Toodles have rented. He takes a few various jobs here an there--including one parachute jump, which is how the movie got its name, I suppose.... Bill is anxious to take a job, any job to keep a roof over their heads, so he hires on as a bodyguard to gangster Leo Carillo.
Toodles unknowingly flies drug runs to and from Canada for Carillo and Alabama is hired on as the thug's secretary. None of them are quite aware of how far reaching their boss's criminal activities are, until it is almost too late.
Review of Parachute Jumper
