Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Michael Whalen
as Dan Sparling
Dolores Costello
as Margaret Bronson
Virginia Weidler
as Ellen Sparling
Don Beddoe
as Dinky
Selmer Jackson
as John Wilson
Mary Forbes
as Gertrude Bishop
Robert Emmett Keane
as Sam Fulton
Pierre Watkin
as Hewitt Bronson
Kathleen Lockhart
as Miss Thornton
Dick Curtis
as Flint
Erville Alderson
as Sauers (uncredited)
Matthew Beard
as Penny (uncredited)
