Newspapermen Ray Walker and Regis Toomey are fighting over editorial cartoonist Evalyn Knapp. Meanwhile, gangster Cy Kendall has just been found not guilty and he's sore over the cartoons Miss Knapp has been drawing in court. He goes to a rival newspaper and cuts a deal to boost their circulation...which he does by destroying the copies of the love triangle's papers.
It's a fast-run, cynical movie that director Charles Lamont slides adeptly from early comedy to later standard but competently executed melodrama. Miss Knapp gives a fine performance and Kendall is excellent as the bad guy. The script is well-larded with newspaper jargon, and the comedy bits enlivened with professionals, including Billy Gilbert, Tom Kennedy, 'Snowflake' Toones and Minerva Urecal. It's a fine example of the competent talent available to ambitious B production companies like Republic.
It's a fast-run, cynical movie that director Charles Lamont slides adeptly from early comedy to later standard but competently executed melodrama. Miss Knapp gives a fine performance and Kendall is excellent as the bad guy. The script is well-larded with newspaper jargon, and the comedy bits enlivened with professionals, including Billy Gilbert, Tom Kennedy, 'Snowflake' Toones and Minerva Urecal. It's a fine example of the competent talent available to ambitious B production companies like Republic.