Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

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