That's My Story
Cast & Crew
Sidney Salkow
William Lundigan
Claudia Morgan
Herbert Mundin
Hobart Cavanaugh
Bernadene Hayes
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Synopsis
Howard Fields, cub reporter, has been fired by all the papers in town. Now in the employ of The Examiner , Howard is given one last chance by city editor B. K. Carter, who orders him to get a jail house interview with accused murderer Bonnie Rand. Bonnie, accused of killing her millionaire playboy boyfriend, is being held incommunicado by Sheriff Allen, an officer who hates all reporters. Howard is met at the jail by numerous other reporters, led by Jenks, who make fun of his theory about Bonnie's innocence. Howard has himself arrested as an auto thief so he can share a cell with Bonnie; however, he ends up with in jail with Hiram, a self-professed gambler and horse-owner. Howard breaks out of his cell, crawls along the outside ledge to the next cell where he finds a beautiful woman whom he assumes is Bonnie. Actually, she is Janet Marlowe, a reporter for the rival paper The Clarion , sent out on a similar assignment by her city editor, Cummings. Janet, seeing a chance to embarrass the rival paper, pretends to be Bonnie and concocts a pitiful story of her innocence. Howard, enamored of her, offers to help "Bonnie" prove her innocence by using the jail telephone to call in his "exclusive" story. No sooner does Howard's story hit the streets than The Clarion , tipped by Janet, reports his story as a hoax. Carter immediately fires Howard, and, adding insult to injury, refuses to get him out of jail. Janet, learning of Howard's fate, feels remorseful and offers to make it up to him somehow. At that point, the real Bonnie appears with a gun and takes Howard and Janet hostage as they break out of the jail. She takes the two reporters to a secret hideout where she is joined by her pal, Blackie. The sheriff traces them to the hideout where Bonnie forces Howard to tell the sheriff to withdraw his forces or she will kill Janet. The female reporter, in the meantime, has come up with a wild alibi to free Bonnie of the murder charge. While Bonnie listens intently to Janet's plan, Howard sneaks up behind her, grabs the gun, and turns the convict over to the authorities. Janet, using her reporter instincts, steals a car to beat Howard to the story. Howard arrives as she finishes phoning in her story, then calls in his own "exclusive." Again, the rival papers print extra editions, each claiming the identical stories as "exclusives." Once again, Howard is fired by his paper, but is compensated by Janet who confesses her love to him. The two lovers decide to leave both papers behind them and find "other news fields."
Director
Sidney Salkow
Cast
William Lundigan
Claudia Morgan
Herbert Mundin
Hobart Cavanaugh
Bernadene Hayes
Eddie Garr
Ralph Morgan
Harlan Briggs
Edward Gargan
Henry Hunter
Charles Wilson
Charles Trowbridge
Sam Hayes
Murray Alper
Arthur Housman
Frank Sully
Edward Earle
Philip Trent
Jack Mack
Leonard Lord
Lee Phelps
Bobby Watson
Henry Roquemore
Dimmy Demarest
Tony Paton
Allen Fox
Polly Vann
Broderick O'farrell
Jerry Mandy
John Kelly
Crew
Elwood B. Bredell
William Fox
John P. Fulton
John Harkrider
Vernon Keays
Vee Terrys Perlman
Robert Presnell
Charles Previn
Barry Trivers
Vera West
Edwin Wetzel
Maurice Wright
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Notes
The working title of this film was Scoop. The summary for this title was based on story material found in the copyright records.
