The Great American Broadcast

Oakie and Payne play a pair of enterprising WW I vets determined to strike it rich in the business world. Financed by another buddy, Romero, the duo bomb out in nearly every venture they enter into until someone suggests giving the fledgling medium of radio a try. With the enthusiastic help of Oakie's girl friend Faye, they begin to build their radio empire. Looking to broadcast an event of major significance in order to snare an audience, the team decides to do a play-by-play of the upcoming Willard-Dempsey fight of 1919. The broadcast is an unqualified success, with Faye and Payne falling in love during the excitement. Payne and Oakie have a parting of the ways s...