Penniless William Powell goes into partnership with failing private detective Arthur Hohl. Powell's intelligence, hard work and integrity wins them clients, but Hohl uses their prominence to make money working for racketeers. When Margaret Lindsay thinks she has shot a man dead -- even though the audience knows she has not -- she turns to Powell for help.
It's a definite pre-code, with everyone on the take but Powell, and the increasingly moral Ruth Donnelly. Powell is fine, speaking his lines clearly and letting the story evolve without any fuss. It's a minor Warner Brothers production, but there is a wealth of minor character actors who will please the demented die-hards like me, including Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Cavanaugh, Irving Bacon, Heinie Conklin, and Toby Wing.
It's a definite pre-code, with everyone on the take but Powell, and the increasingly moral Ruth Donnelly. Powell is fine, speaking his lines clearly and letting the story evolve without any fuss. It's a minor Warner Brothers production, but there is a wealth of minor character actors who will please the demented die-hards like me, including Natalie Moorhead, Hobart Cavanaugh, Irving Bacon, Heinie Conklin, and Toby Wing.