| Release Date: | Sep 1931 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Crime |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
| Cast: | Edward G. Robinson (Joseph W. Randall), Marian Marsh (Jenny Townsend) H.B. Warner (Michael Townsend) Anthony Bushell (Phillip Weeks) George E. Stone (Ziggie Feinstein) Frances Starr (Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend) Ona Munson (Kitty Carmody) Boris Karloff (Rev. T. Vernon Isopod) Aline MacMahon (Miss Taylor) Oscar Apfel (Bernard Hinchecliffe) Purnell Pratt (Robert French) Robert Elliott (R.J. Brannegan) James P. Burtis (Reporter (uncredited)) Richard Carlyle (First Newstand Proprietor (uncredited)) Frank Darien (Swartz (undertaker) (uncredited)) James Donlan (Reporter in speakeasy (uncredited)) Evelyn Hall (Mrs. Isobel Weeks (uncredited)) Gladys Lloyd (Miss Edwards (Hinchecliffe's...) William H. Strauss (Jerry - the Bartender (uncredited)) David Torrence (Arthur Weeks (uncredited)) Harold Waldridge (Arthur Goldberg (copyboy) (uncredited)) Polly Walters (Telephone operator (uncredited)) Jack Wise (Clerk selling Nancy the Gazette...) |
Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her lover. As she is now a happy wife and mother, she pleads with Randall to drop it. When he won't, she poisons herself. More trouble ensues.
