Lloyd Bacon (Director) · Courtney Terrett (Story)
Joan Blondell
Maizie Dickson
Grant Mitchell
Martin Collins
Vivienne Osborne
Mrs. Marcia Ferguson
Adrienne Dore
Antoinette 'Toni' Martin
Tom Brown
Bruce Foster
Kenneth Thomson
Bob Parks
Leslie Fenton
Perrin
Oscar Apfel
Mr. Brooks
Walter Miller
Cedric Works
Purnell Pratt
George M. Ferguson
Willard Robertson
Sheriff
George Meeker
Jigger Bolton
Russell Hopton
Rusty Callahan
George McFarland
Newsboy
Leon Ames
Judd Brooks
J. Carrol Naish
Claude Wright
William Burress
Dad Sipes
Clarence Wilson
County Attorney
Russell Simpson
Banker Craig
Kathrin Clare Ward
Mrs. Martin - Toni's Mother
George Chandler
Depot Loafer (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Fire Chief (uncredited)
Dick Curtis
O'Toole (uncredited)
Mike Donlin
Photographer (uncredited)
James Ellison
Reporter Lane (uncredited)
George Irving
Reporter (uncredited)
Si Jenks
Gas Station Man (uncredited)
Allan Lane
Reporter (uncredited)
Claire McDowell
Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Miriam Seegar
Mrs. Judd Brooks (uncredited)
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A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
