Exposed (1938)
Directed by Harold Schuster / Harold D. Schuster
Release Date - Nov 5, 1938 (USA - Unknown), Nov 5, 1938 (USA) |
Run Time - 63 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story, newspaper sob sister Click Stewart (Farrell) is presently on the trail of DA William Reardon (Otto Kruger), a "Judge Crater" type who disappeared without a trace several years earlier. Following a lead, she finds Reardon residing in a flophouse, where he's been drinking his life away ever since he sent an innocent man to the electric chair. Sensing a swell scoop, Click offers to locate the daughter of the wrongly executed man so that Reardon can apologize; in exchange, our heroine will get the ex-DA's exclusive story. As the story progresses, Reardon rehabilitates himself and Click regains her essential decency and humanity, whereupon they team up to smash the operation of racketeer Mike Romero (Bernard Nedell).
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alcoholism, bad-guy, bum, gangster, good-guy, guilt, lawyer, photography, poverty, redemption, restitution