Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital. He quickly finds that it is everyone for himself, so he goes into the business of not reporting for a fee. He quickly learns to shake down the gangsters, and with the paper behind him, they leave Lee alone. But the girl he is crazy for will only trade a ring for his going straight.
Directed byJohn Francis Dillon
Written byJohn Monk Saunders (by), W.R. Burnett (by), Robert Lord (adaptation), John Monk Saunders (dialogue)
CountryUSA
Runtime90 min
On screen
Richard Barthelmess
Fay Wray
Regis Toomey
Robert Elliott