"Tell her nothing. She's a woman you fool!"
Journalist Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien), is leaving his post to marry Peggy Grant (Mary Brian) and move to New York. About to leave, he looks in on his old colleagues one last time, as they wait for news of the hanging of Earl Williams (George E. Stone). But then Williams escapes and falls into the lap of Johnson. Unfortunately this plays into the hands of Johnson's editor Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou), who wants him to stay, and Burns does everything he can to prevent Johnson from leaving both the story and the paper.
A fantastic farce, with Milestone giving dyanmism to the camera. Nine years later this was re-vamped, twisting the casting, and renamed as His Girl Friday, producing an even better comedy.
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