Still relevant flick about a Ponzi scheme perpetuated by seemingly noble industrialists. A smart story, neither moralizing nor naive, about newspaperman Andy Terrell's quest to sniff out the truth behind a District Attorney's murder. So, are there any real newspapermen left anymore? Ones that pay a kid $10 to tail suspects? One that questions the official story and hunts out the truth? Terrell's character, a realist or cynic depending on your mood, hands the murdered DA's replacement a gun for protection saying, "Smith and Wesson makes all men equal. And equality is the basis of a true democracy." The DA responds by promising to protect the public from "these leeches who have chiseled and gouged and swindled them out of their hard earned dollars"! Sit on that, Wall Street!
I think this flick works nicely as a B-movie: because there are no capital-S stars (at least recognizable to a modern audience), the dialogue and story are in the foreground. I found this one on Internet Archive http://www.archive.org, a non-profit group that makes digital material (including awesome, out of copyright films) accessible to the public.
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