CrimeDrama
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"A picture as sensational as its subject!"
User Score45 votes
65%6.5/10
Release1931→
Runtime1H 29M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Principal Cast8
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
T. Vernon Isopod
Media12
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Budget$0M
Revenue$1M
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NRKeywords
pressbased on play or musicalnewspaper mannewspaper editorpre-codefemale journalistbreach of promisesensationalismaccused of murdercrime serialtabloid journalismnewspaper headline
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Countries:United States of America
Production:The Vitaphone CorporationFirst National Pictures