Reporter Frank Ross is hot on the trail of a story which links the District Attorney with a construction company scandal - and getting too close to the truth. So he has to be put out of the way...

James Cagney, sometimes called the best gangster of them all, made his first big impact as a tough guy in Public Enemy in 1931 and was at the height of his popularity when he made this hard-hitting indictment of political corruption and prison abuses, in which he plays the crusading journalist and leaves the gangster part to another well-known tough guy - George Raft.

(This Week's Films: page 11)