Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) is a newspaper man, and thus as this is a 1930s movie he is cocky and always wise cracking! After a drunken exchange with his editor he finds himself out of a job and on a train to St Louis with a lack of cash. There he meets Anne (Maxine Doyle) who is also very hard-up and a friendship blossoms. In need of money Larry gets a job with the local paper to try and discover the identity of the notorious criminal the Eel (LeRoy Mason)...
Larry is present when the Eel commits another crime and kills a policeman. Unfortunately for Larry, the Eel used a gun which Larry himself had pawned, and which has Larry's prints all over...
This is a fun film in the usual bright and breezy style when the story involves members of the press. Larry and Anne get into a number of dangerous scrapes, you know they will manage to escape in the end but the journey to get there is very entertaining.
