A D.A. gets whacked, one reporter smells a rat, and the lies stack higher than the body count.
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Acting
Lee Tracy's machine-gun delivery outpaces the plot holes.
Production
Monogram Pictures magic: 74 minutes, zero fat, pure narrative caffeine.
Director
Arthur Dreifuss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lee Tracy was Paramount's original choice for the lead in The Front Page (1931) before his career was derailed by an infamous drunken incident in Mexico.
Monogram Pictures churned out over 50 films in 1942 alone; this was their formula—star power on a shoestring, sold as double-feature filler.
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