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Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Storyline
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Lee Tracy
Buckley Joyce Thomas
Benita Hume
Kate Nelson
Una Merkel
Dolly Winslow
James Gleason
Lefty Williams
Alan Edwards
Pettingwaite
Eugene Sigaloff
Prince Alexander
Ari Kutai
Kostya
C. Henry Gordon
Commissar
Lya Lys
Eugenie
John Bleifer
Sozanoff
Lawrence Grant
MacKenzie
Guy Usher
J. H. Stevens
Mischa Auer
Arab leader (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
Hotel desk clerk (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan
French Radio Operator (uncredited)
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