A radio network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved..

If you love vintage melodrama and want to see Humphrey Bogart before he became Humphrey Bogart, this is worth an hour of your life. It is not for anyone expecting a slick gangster flick or a cozy romance. 📻 The whole thing is basically an angry rant against trashy media, but with 1930s microphones. Bogart plays Sher...


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"If you love vintage melodrama and want to see Humphrey Bogart before he became Humphrey Bogart, this is worth an hour of your life. It is not for anyone expecting a slick gangster flick or a cozy romance. 📻 The whole thing is basically an angry rant against trashy media, but with 1930s microphones. Bogart plays Sherry Scott, a radio station manager who has to do the dirty work for his greedy boss. The boss wants to boost ratings by broadcasting a trashy dramatization of a twenty-year-old murd..."

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