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"THE MAN WHO LIVED A FANTASTIC HOAX AND VICTIMIZED A NATION!"
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
32 Cast Members
Preston Foster
Steve Drum
Lynn Bari
Maxine Thomas
Russell Gleason
Albert Hockman
George Barbier
Clanahan
Eddie Collins
Billiard
Minor Watson
Charles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey
Charles Halton
Lt. Governor Elmer Hinge
Paul Harvey
Inspector Melrose
Richard Lane
Barney Basely
Charles Lane
District Attorney Rufe Reynolds
Betty Compson
Kitty Truman
Paul Fix
Joe Luddy
Paul Guilfoyle
Bat Randall
Ernie Alexander
Drunk
Irving Bacon
Mike, Fingerprint Man
Eugene Borden
Headwaiter
Wade Boteler
Warden
Harold Goodwin
Simms
George Guhl
Turnkey
J. Anthony Hughes
Guard
