Robert Armstrong (Larry Doyle), Maxine Doyle (Ann), Henry Kolker (Jonas), James Burke (Marvin), Guy Usher (District Attorney Johnson), LeRoy Mason (The Eel), Dell Henderson (hotel manager), Monte Collins (Dunn), Norman Houston (Whistler), James P. Burtis (Whalen), Sam Lufkin (Weeks), Otto Fries (pawnbroker), Sam Flint (Jerome Roberts, the publisher), Stanley Blystone (waiter), Herb Vigran (fingerprint man), Frfed Kelsey, Bruce Mitchell (policemen), Harry Strang (train depot tightwad), Lee Shumway, Rollo Lloyd.
Director: RAY McCAREY. Screenplay: John W. Krafft, Rollo Lloyd. Adapted by William A. Johnston from a story by Tate Finn. Photography: Harry Neumann. Film editor: Carl Pierson. Art director: E.R. Hickson. Sound recording: John A. Stransky, junior. Producer: George Yohalem. Executive producer: Trem Carr.
Copyright 28 February 1935 by Monogram Pictures Corporation. U.S. release: 12 February 1935. No recorded New York opening. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: After being fired from his job in Chicago, a top crime reporter talks his way into the employ of a tabloid in St Louis.
COMMENT: A pleasant but rather action-less little movie, spun out with loads of talk.
Fortunately, the players led by live-wire Robert Armstrong and the really super-cute Maxine Doyle do manage to sustain interest. Well, even my interest anyway. But I think everyone will admit that even James Burke has a spicy role.
And the really-really good news is that production values are unusually glossy by Monogram's generally rather humble standards.
Director: RAY McCAREY. Screenplay: John W. Krafft, Rollo Lloyd. Adapted by William A. Johnston from a story by Tate Finn. Photography: Harry Neumann. Film editor: Carl Pierson. Art director: E.R. Hickson. Sound recording: John A. Stransky, junior. Producer: George Yohalem. Executive producer: Trem Carr.
Copyright 28 February 1935 by Monogram Pictures Corporation. U.S. release: 12 February 1935. No recorded New York opening. 67 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: After being fired from his job in Chicago, a top crime reporter talks his way into the employ of a tabloid in St Louis.
COMMENT: A pleasant but rather action-less little movie, spun out with loads of talk.
Fortunately, the players led by live-wire Robert Armstrong and the really super-cute Maxine Doyle do manage to sustain interest. Well, even my interest anyway. But I think everyone will admit that even James Burke has a spicy role.
And the really-really good news is that production values are unusually glossy by Monogram's generally rather humble standards.