Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his long time enemy, Mayor Gorham ( Lloyd Ingraham )..
Rodney Marvin saunters into the newsroom like a champagne bubble that’s learned to walk, his spats flashing semaphore signals of fraudulent confidence while the linotype machines clatter a metallic hymn to manufactured truth. There is, in this brittle 1922 newsprint universe, a whiff of cordite and corn starch, of ciga...
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"Rodney Marvin saunters into the newsroom like a champagne bubble that’s learned to walk, his spats flashing semaphore signals of fraudulent confidence while the linotype machines clatter a metallic hymn to manufactured truth. There is, in this brittle 1922 newsprint universe, a whiff of cordite and corn starch, of cigars left to smolder in chipped enamel trays, of telegrams that arrive like death warrants sealed with a smirk. Director Ford Beebe—better remembered for western serials—here orchest..."
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