***SPOILERS*** Early Humphrey Bogart flick has Bogie playing the program director Sherry Scott of the UBC radio network the self proclaimed "Voice of the People" that in fact specializes in sleaze and scandal. Needing to up it's rating the station president Bertra C. Retnolds, Robert Middlemass, comes up with this great idea of reviving the notorious Gloria Pembroke, the O.J Simpson of the 1920's,case where Gloria was found innocent in the shooting death of her drunken and abusive husband. Even though Gloria was found innocent, like O.J was, she had to change her name and go into hiding since no one, but he jury who found her innocent, believed her story.
As it later turned out sleaze-ball private investigator Dr. Martin Levenwoth, Harry Hyden, tracked down Gloria, who's now calls herself Martha Carstaris, Hellen McKallar, and pretending to be a priest gets the lowdown of her shadowy past and reports back to his boss UBC program director Sherry Scott with the story. The sad thing about all this is not only exposing Martha's past to the public with the 15 part radio program "Sin Doesn't Pay" but putting her sweet and lovely daughter Edith's, Linda Perry, marriage to steel magnet Malcolm Sims,Douglas Wood, son Maclolm Jr, Carlyle Moore Jr, on the rocks. That if the truth about Linda's mom's past was ever to became pubic!
****SPOILERS**** The film shows just how far people in the media will go to make a buck not caring whom they destroy in making it. It's UBC's president Bertram C. Reynolds who refused to cancel the program even when Martha and her husband Mr. Jim Carstairs, Henry O'Neill, beg him too. It was the tragedy that the show lead to that had program director Sherry Scott have a sudden change of heart.
In the aftermath of what damage the show caused Scott just couldn't go on working for the UBC network. And knowing what greedy low life scum like Reynolds and Levenworth are capable of doing Scott, despite his involvement in their crimes, in the end willingly goes to court to testify against them and put the two out of the media and radio business together with himself as well.
As it later turned out sleaze-ball private investigator Dr. Martin Levenwoth, Harry Hyden, tracked down Gloria, who's now calls herself Martha Carstaris, Hellen McKallar, and pretending to be a priest gets the lowdown of her shadowy past and reports back to his boss UBC program director Sherry Scott with the story. The sad thing about all this is not only exposing Martha's past to the public with the 15 part radio program "Sin Doesn't Pay" but putting her sweet and lovely daughter Edith's, Linda Perry, marriage to steel magnet Malcolm Sims,Douglas Wood, son Maclolm Jr, Carlyle Moore Jr, on the rocks. That if the truth about Linda's mom's past was ever to became pubic!
****SPOILERS**** The film shows just how far people in the media will go to make a buck not caring whom they destroy in making it. It's UBC's president Bertram C. Reynolds who refused to cancel the program even when Martha and her husband Mr. Jim Carstairs, Henry O'Neill, beg him too. It was the tragedy that the show lead to that had program director Sherry Scott have a sudden change of heart.
In the aftermath of what damage the show caused Scott just couldn't go on working for the UBC network. And knowing what greedy low life scum like Reynolds and Levenworth are capable of doing Scott, despite his involvement in their crimes, in the end willingly goes to court to testify against them and put the two out of the media and radio business together with himself as well.