When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Fred MacMurray
Frances Farmer
Charles Ruggles
Lloyd Nolan
Fay Holden
Horace McMahon
Ralph Morgan
Edward H. Robins
Harlan Briggs
Willard Robertson
William Mansell
Steve Pendleton
Chester Clute
Irving Bacon
James Blakeley
Sam Hayes
Mariska Aldrich
Ricca Allen
William Arnold
Sam Ash
Benny Bartlett
Jack Chapin
Jack Cheatham
Edward Churchill
Ethel Clayton
Joe Cunningham
Jack Daley
Max Davidson
Joe De Stefani
James Dime
Margaret Fealy
Almeda Fowler
Billy Franey
Mack Gray
Frank Hammond
Harry Hayden
Edward Hearn
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Tex Higginson
Carol Holloway
Erskine Johnson
John Kelly
Billy Lee
Ann Marsters
Robert Milasch
Frances Morris
Spec O'Donnell
Frank Puglia
James Quinn
Dick Rush
Lou Salter
Allan Sears
Antrim Short
Gertrude Simpson
Libby Taylor
Ray Turner
Pat West
Cornel Wilde
Gloria Williams
Charlene Wyatt
Frank Bruno
Richard Allen