Name the Woman (1934)

The fate of a city hung upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. Headlines screamed her shame, but in the end love vindicated her. Such is the startling, melodramatic them of Columbia's "Name the Woman," a newspaper thrill drama presenting the dramatic conflict between Clem Rogers, a young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter bent on ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine, and his political adversaries. In a drama replete with romance, daring and exciting action, the film reveals a sensational conflict between a grafting political ring pitted against the love of a boy and a girl. The adventurous spirit of the cub reporter leads him through a series of thrilling exploits that wrote the headlines of the day, involving a romance, an election, and a number of murders. Starting with his assignment to cover the slaying of the District Attorney, Rogers continues on his own to unravel the mystery after having stumbled accidentally upon an important clue that momentarily involved the daughter of the reform candidate for mayor. It is mainly his mission to clear the girl's name that spurs him on, until the dramatic climax brings the guilty one to justice. Authenticity from a newspaper standpoint is assured by the fact that Herbert Asbury, one of the country's best-known newspaper men in the last decade, is the co-author of the story.