In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Acting
Lee Tracy's motor-mouth reporter steals every scene.
Direction
Ford experimenting with sound while eyeing Westerns.
Director
John Ford
Edmund Lowe
Louis Beretti
Catherine Dale Owen
Joan Sheldon
Frank Albertson
Frank Sheldon
Marguerite Churchill
Rosa Beretti
William Harrigan
Good News Brophy
Lee Tracy
Bill O'Brien
Warren Hymer
Big Shot
Ilka Chase
High Society Customer at Beretti's
Ferike Boros
Ma Beretti
Paul Porcasi
Pa Beretti
Ben Bard
Joe Bergman
Pat Somerset
Duke
Eddie Gribbon
Bugs
Mike Donlin
Fingy Moscovitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fox rushed this into production to capitalize on Edmund Lowe's hit turn in 'What Price Glory?' — they literally copied his mustache.
Ford later disowned his early sound films; you can see him straining against static camera setups that would soon explode in 'Stagecoach'.
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