A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Acting
Henry Hull's sweaty, desperate senator
Direction
Buzzell's efficient B-picture tension
Writing
Surprisingly sharp Pre-Code dialogue
Director
Edward Buzzell
Gene Raymond
Carey Marshall
Henry Hull
Sen. Hamp Baxter
Frances Drake
Dale Cameron
June Clayworth
Pat Warren
Clark Williams
Chris Blake
Edward Ellis
Nick Kiley
Douglas Fowley
Matt Baxter
Helen Lowell
Matilda Branham
Clara Blandick
Eva Branham
Phillip Trent
Fred Baxter
Al Bridge
Sheriff Angel Verner
Willard Robertson
Ed Goring
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
'Noxious'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 12 days on Columbia's B-unit, typical for 1935 programmers.
Released months before enforcement of the stricter Hays Code, hence the frank corruption and implied suicide.
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