Blackwell's Island (1939)

Directors

William C. McGann

Cast

Al Herman, Dick Purcell, Granville Bates, John Garfield, Peggy Shannon, Rosemary Lane, Stanley Fields, Victor Jory

The story

A reporter (Garfield) covers the racketeering of a mobster (Fields) which caused the assault of a boat captain. The mobster has a police officer (Purcell) beaten and the reporting causes the mobster to go to prison for it. The reporter then assaults a DA to get thrown into the prison to report on the mobster's corruption from jail.

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