The premise was very interesting: trying to find and stop the many women who marry multiple soldiers for their allotment checks. The result was a little disappointing, and frankly, odd. Without the opening scene explaining the problem, the movie wouldn't be about the allotment wives at all. It's just a gangster picture with a sob story of motherhood thrown in for Kay Francis. I don't know why she made a career of playing sacrificing mothers; she didn't ever come across as one to me.
Anyway, the actual plot is about Kay Francis as the head of a crime syndicate. She has two groups under her belt: one is the ring of women who marry multiple soldiers, and the other is an old cronies network of scary men with guns. They help embezzle the money, forge paperwork, and make sure no one gets caught. The women continually make mistakes and cause trouble for the men to cover up. So, they're always just shy of getting caught. Is it really worth all the hassle? As Dana Andrews says in The Best Years of Our Lives, "If you don't use this, you won't need that to take it off." Kay's motherhood woe is also quite boring: she's hiding her identity from her daughter because she wants her to be respectable. The false tears and melodrama fit with neither the gangsters nor the wartime atmosphere.
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