If itâs scandalous, sensational and hush-hush, New York columnist William Poster is the guy who lurks inside the speakeasies or slips beyond the backstage doors to find it. But after he breaks a story about an infamous politicoâs murder, the next time Posterâs name appears in print may be in the obituaries. Ricardo Cortez portrays Poster in a snappy pre-Code tale thatâs one of many films supervised by David O. Selznick at RKO in the early 1930s. âIt is a shrewd, witty and scathing portrait, and Mr. Cortez plays the part to the hilt,â wrote critic Andre Sennwald in The New York Times. First-billed Helen Twelvetrees plays Posterâs forgiving Broadway sweetie. Other notables include future Charlie Chan-series star Sidney Toler as the murderous speakeasy proprietor and Robert Armstrong as a rival columnist. Less than a year later, Armstrong would journey to Skull Island in executive producer Selznickâs King Kong.
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