Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Cast
Michael Whalen
Dan Sparling
Dolores Costello
Margaret Bronson
Virginia Weidler
Ellen Sparling
Don Beddoe
Dinky
Selmer Jackson
John Wilson
Mary Forbes
Gertrude Bishop
Robert Emmett Keane
Sam Fulton
Pierre Watkin
Hewitt Bronson
Kathleen Lockhart
Miss Thornton
Dick Curtis
Flint
Erville Alderson
Sauers (uncredited)
Matthew Beard
Penny (uncredited)
Clem Bevans
Smedley (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore
Secretary (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Circulation Man (uncredited)
Winifred Drew
Bit Role (uncredited)
Richard Fiske
Prisoner (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
Secretary (uncredited)
Kenneth MacDonald
Hutchins (uncredited)
Rita Owin
Teacher (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
Reporter (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Miss Strawbridge (uncredited)
Crew
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