An enjoyable crime caper, naturally with a wise cracking journalist like they always are in 1930s movies!
After crime boss Nate Girard (Onslow Stevens) is found not-guilty of murder, newspaper photographer Kent (Lew Ayres) gets on the story. At a party Nate holds to celebrate, a mysterious woman called Meg (Gail Patrick) confronts him. Later Meg turns up at Kent's apartment begging for help (he is in the shower at the time!) Redfield (Earnest Crossard), Nate's lawyer, was shot during a press photo call. In the confusion Meg fled and now she is suspected of carrying out the murder!
Kent decides to help Meg but he soon finds himself drugged (by Meg) and his apartment ransacked (by Nate's men). However, his friend and rival McGoogin (Paul Kelly) may have given him the clue to the identity of the real killer...
A fast moving film with some good performances though the plot at times is a little strange or far fetched. The sub-plot with Kent's annoying fiancé (Joyce Compton) doesn't really add anything to the film.
