Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Acting
Boris Karloff slumming it as a gangster lackey.
Production
Pre-Code speedrunning an entire political thriller in under an hour.
Director
Christy Cabanne
Regis Toomey
Dustin Hotchkiss
Sue Carol
Constance Hall
Dorothy Revier
Pearl Vaughan
Boris Karloff
Terry
William B. Davidson
M.H. Thomas
George Irving
Robert Hall
Harold Goodwin
'Speed' Hansen
Richard Tucker
District Attorney Martin Harrison
Willard Robertson
E. T. Scudder
King Baggot
Ship's Captain
E.H. Calvert
Police Inspector
Carmelita Geraghty
Miss Taylor - M.H. Thomas' secretary
Edward LeSaint
Newspaper Printer
Wilfred Lucas
Candidate Louis
Charles Sullivan
Sailor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of five films Karloff made in 1931, the same year he became immortal as Frankenstein's monster.
Pre-Code Hollywood loved corrupt politician stories because the Hays Code hadn't yet banned cynicism about American institutions.
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