Name: Hot off the Press
Released: 1935
Cast: Jack La Rue, Virginia Pine, Monte Blue, Fuzzy Knight, James C. Morton

Cast & Crew

Monte Blue

Fuzzy Knight

James C. Morton

Film Details

Release Date

Sep 15, 1935

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Victory Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

State Rights; Victory Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "The New Pardner" by Peter B. Kyne (publication undetermined).

Synopsis

Bill Jeffry, circulation manager of the Evening Call , quits and joins the cross-town rival paper, the Star Bulletin . Bill's boss, publisher J. C., and his assistant, Mack MacCallum, want to use strongarm tactics to regain readership lost to the Star . At the Star , Bill hires prizefighters to stop Mack's hoodlums from attacking the paper's newsboys. But Bill receives word from Brenda Johnson, J. C.'s secretary, who is falling in love with Bill, that J. C. is planning a new scheme with Mack. Newsboy Mickey Karnes is attacked by Mack's men, but when Bill helps him, a photographer takes a picture that makes Bill appear to be the boy's assailant. Despite the district attorney's belief in his innocence, Bill is prosecuted. Bill launches his own investigation and locates a truckdriver who tells him about a crooked deal J. C. made with the man's former employer, a construction firm. Bill confronts J. C., and as J. C. admits his complicity, Brenda holds her phone to the office speaker and Star reporter Jimmy transcribes the conversation. Mack arrives and after knocking Bill unconscious, he and his men leave to destroy the Star 's presses. Bill regains consciousness and waylays Mack until the police arrive. J. C. and Mack are taken to prison, and Bill wins Brenda's hand in marriage.