Headline Crasher (1937) DVD-R

Starring Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Muriel Evans, Richard Tucker,
John Merton
Directed by Leslie Goodwins

Print: black/white
Runtime: 58 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

"Headline Crasher" is a Conn Pictures Corporation production that was
distributed on a regional basis by Guaranteed Pictures which, for the
sources that seem to think otherwise, was a distribution company and not
a production company. It was adapted by Harry O. Hoyt from Peter
B.Kyne's "Motion To Adjourn" with the screenplay supplied by Sherman L.
Lowe. It is another in the series of Frankie Darro/Kane Richmond pictures
produced by Maurice Conn, with Darro as Jimmy Tallant, the care-free son
of Senator Tallant (Richard Tucker), who feels compelled to help people
he thinks are in distress and, by doing so, stays in trouble of some kind.
The Senator is running for re-election, and is opposed by a newspaper
that assigns reporter Larry Deering (Kane Richmond) to the task of
writing stories that will lead to the Senator's defeat. Scarlotti (John
Merton), a paroled convict leader of a gang of bank robbers, also has a
bone to pick with the Senator. Jimmy's handy-andy good deeds gets him
seeminly involved with the gang and this also brings up some situations
that does not help his daddy's re-election bid.