Synopsis
A newscaster (Ronald Reagan) gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
1937 Directed by Nick Grinde
A newscaster (Ronald Reagan) gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Ronald Reagan June Travis Eddie Acuff Ben Welden Robert Barrat Addison Richards Raymond Hatton Tommy Bupp Dickie Jones Willard Parker William Hopper Spec O'Donnell Herbert Rawlinson Mary Hart Jack Mower Harry Hayden Fern Barry Georgie Billings Sonny Bupp Glen Cavender Alan Davis Margaret Davis Don Deering John Dilson Marianne Edwards John Elliott Henry Hanna Anne Howard Priscilla Lyon Show All…
Ronald Reagan as a fearless radio reporter trying to expose the city's big gangsters.... but instead is demoted to the kiddie hour to keep out of harms way. He's a professional no matter what he selling! No wonder he talked himself info to office! The movie is alright as a entertaining B-picture with Reagan & June Travis being sweet enough and the pace kept up mixing the comedy with the action. Forgettable for sure, but it works for what it is.
The title has nothing to do with this "B" picture from Warner, which features Ronald Reagan in his debut. Reagan plays a hot shot radio broadcaster who decides to use the airways to bring down racketeers but this gets him into trouble with his boss and puts his life on the line by the bad guys. This 61-minute film goes by pretty fast but in the end it's pretty light on story, action and acting. Reagan is decent in his first film, although at times it seems like he's trying to do an impersonation of James Cagney. The supporting cast is mostly forgettable and there's really nothing that stands out here among the various other "B" films of its type.
A crusading radio reporter runs afoul of his employer and the gangsters who run his radio station. This film is notable as the film debut of Ronald Reagan who stars as a radio broadcaster. This was not much of a stretch for him - he previously was a radio news broadcaster - and he acquits himself reasonably well. The cast of mostly B-movie stock players was adequate, but Ben Welden was good as the villain. The plot was standard with a few plot twists.
Ronald Reagan as a fearless radio reporter trying to expose the city's big gangsters.... but instead is demoted to the kiddie hour to keep out of harms way. He's a professional no matter what he selling! No wonder he talked himself info to office! The movie is alright as a entertaining B-picture with Reagan & June Travis being sweet enough and the pace kept up mixing the comedy with the action. Forgettable for sure, but it works for what it is.
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