New York city reporter Bill Terry (
Allan Lane and his photographer-assistant "Candid" Perry (
Jack Carson) follow an eloping heiress to a small New York town where he hears the marriage license clerk, Jud Holcomb (
Victor Moore), give advice to the eloping couple, and he learns that no couple who has received a license from Jud has ever been divorced. Bill writes a story and Jud becomes a celebrity. Bill falls in love with Jud's daughter, Nancy (
Vickie Lester), and local attorney Lloyd Wilson (
Vinton Hayworth) finds he has become a jilted suitor. Jud is pleased as he dislikes Wilson because he is too friendly with roadhouse owner and political power-holder Joe Selby (
Richard Lane), who controls Mayor Frisbee (
Frank M. Thomas), Commissioner Perkins (
Bryant Washburn) and Police Chief Hardy (
Cecil Kellaway). Bill and Candid recognize Selby as a former NY gangster who had framed his partner Frankie Spencer and then gone away with Frankie's girl friend Bella Lawson (
Kay Sutton), who is singing in Joe's nightclub. Jud runs for mayor on a reform ticket, but Selby kills Frankie and frames Jud for it.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>