A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Henrietta
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
Patient (uncredited)
버지니아의 부모는 딸을 예의바르게 키우기 위해서 투정부리는 딸의 인형을 빼앗아 벌하기도 하고 삐친 딸이 밥을 먹지 않을 때는 큰 소리로 꾸짖는다. 그 이유에서인지 버지니아는 매우 내성적이다. 소녀는 투정을 받아주지 않는 부모에 대한 섭섭한 마음을 혼잣말로 이야기하고 인형에게 화풀이를 한다. 억압적인 태도의 부모는 버지니아에게는 상처가 되고 성인이 되어서도 큰 트라우마로 자리잡는데...
Nora (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Flower Hawker (uncredited)
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Charwoman (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Bit Role (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Mrs. Sam
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Cook
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
