Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Edward G. Robinson
as Joseph W. Randall
Marian Marsh
as Jenny Townsend
H.B. Warner
as Michael Townsend
Anthony Bushell
as Phillip Weeks
George E. Stone
as Ziggie Feinstein
Frances Starr
as Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend
Ona Munson
as Kitty Carmody
Boris Karloff
as T. Vernon Isopod
Aline MacMahon
as Miss Taylor
Oscar Apfel
as Bernard Hinchecliffe
Purnell Pratt
as Robert French
Robert Elliott
as R.J. Brannegan