A well-made crime story, with Clarke as the reporter who is going after syndicate head Wallace, who controls the dirty money in town. A new police commissioner gets the goods on the crime kingpin, so Wallace's men murder the commissioner and steal the evidence. Clarke gets friendly with
Wallace's right-hand man, Page, outsmarting both him and Wallace, and nearly getting herself killed in the process. But in the end she comes up with the evidence and the best story of her life. Clarke, famed for having had a grapefruit pushed into her kisser by James Cagney in THE PUBLIC ENEMY
(1931), had also played a featured role in the journalism-themed film that spawned this mo...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
66 mins