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7 September 1929 (USA)
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A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. | add synopsis
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Precode melodrama
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Armstrong | ... | Steve Banks |
 | Carole Lombard | ... | Margaret Banks (as Carol Lombard) |
| Louis Payne | ... | Hensel |
| Wade Boteler | ... | O'Neill |
| Charles Sellon | ... | Addison |
| Sam Hardy | ... | Reno |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | Ryan |
| Warner Richmond | ... | District Attorney Phelps |
| Helen Ainsworth | ... | Vera, Society editor (as Cupid Ainsworth) |
| Gertrude Sutton | ... | Helen |
| James Donlan | ... | Deke |
 | George 'Gabby' Hayes | ... | Reporter (as George Hayes) |
 | Vernon Steele | ... | Reporter |
| Clarence Wilson | ... | Coroner |
| Fred Behrle | ... | Elevator man |
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75 min
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This adult (for it's day) themed drama of a hard drinking reporter (who is also hard brawling) Robert Armstrong and his wife Carol(e) Lombard who is also a reporter and wants to divorce him is faced paced and contains not only speakeasies and drinking but a plot about the murder of a drug addict and her dealer. The drug plot line doesn't really do much but make the whole thing a bit more sleazy. The killer is caught because he is recorded on a cylinder when he doesn't know it. The reporter's boss is the murder victim. The reporter is framed by the murderer who is there at the newspaper where he commits the crime while another one of the reporter's bosses is on the phone! All ends well when Carol(e) discovers that Armstrong has switched to tea from booze in his flask which leads to a loving happy ending (he gets a raise too!).