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Cleared of a crime, gangster Charles Gillette seeks vengeance against Mountain City townspeople who sought to put him behind bars, including Colonel Bogardus, owner of an influential newspaper. Gillette buys the Sentinel, rival to the World, and tries to hire star reporter Ralph Houston to be his editor, but Ralph declines.

Gillette then uses Ralph's girlfriend, Vina Swain, to dig up dirt on his enemies. A story on mayoral candidate Horace Mitchell smears his reputation and results in a suicide. Tod Swain, an editor at the World, chastises Vina for her poor judgment. Gillette then sets out to ruin a department store owner by having henchman Beak McArdle arrange an elevator accident that causes deaths as well as serious injury to Ralph.

Vina's own life is in peril when Gillette then orders McArdle to murder her so she can never tell what she knows. Tod helps her return safely, then tricks Gillette into a confession about the elevator accident. The Sentinel is sold to the town, with a recovered Ralph deciding to run it.

• Fred MacMurray as Ralph Houston
• Frances Farmer as Vina Swain
• Charlie Ruggles as Tod Swain
• Lloyd Nolan as Charles Gillette
• Fay Holden as Mrs. Swain
• Ralph Morgan as Horace Mitchell
• Edward H. Robins as Colonel Bogardus
• Harlan Briggs as Springer
• Willard Robertson as Mr. Franklin
• Horace McMahon as Beak McArdle
• William Mansell as Formby
• Steve Pendleton as Elliott
• Chester Clute as Garner
• Irving Bacon as Dr. Boomgarten
• Frank Bruno as Lollipop
• James Blakeley as Mr. Walton
• Sam Hayes as Radio Announcer

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