A poison dart interrupts a death row confession. The '30s really said 'no snitching.'
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Acting
Peggy Shannon's reporter has main character energy in a man's world.
Direction
Phil Rosen crams a feature plot into 68 minutes like it's a competition.
Director
Phil Rosen
Peggy Shannon
Nancy Weaver
Preston Foster
Insp. O'Brien
Ray Walker
Natural
Hobart Cavanaugh
Parkhurst
Barbara Barondess
Gwen
Paul Porcasi
Nick
Harold Waldridge
Joe
Jason Robards Sr.
Clinton
Bryant Washburn
District Attorney
Harry Holman
McGee
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Collins
James Durkin
Warden
Gordon De Main
Butler
Paul Fix
Maloney
Sam Flint
Prison Doctor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a 'lost film'—no known complete print survives, so you're watching fragments or reconstructions.
Pre-Code Hollywood (1930-1934) let reporters be morally messy women before the Hays Code sanitized everything.
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