The Drag-Net

Rod LaRoque spent four years studying the law, and no time since practicing it, so father Edward LeSaint kicks him out as a partner and gets him a job as an Assistant District Attorney. While celebrating the event with girl and newspaper reporter Marian Nixon at a night club, there is a murder and he takes charge, with little idea of what to do. Fortunately, Miss Nixon has a better idea of it, and his boss feels he has no choice but to put LaRoque in charge. With no idea of who the murdered woman is, and a leak somewhere that forestalls any investigation, can LaRoque make good and Miss Nixon?

It's the next to last film of director Vin Moore, actress Marian Nixon, and producer and former Edison Trust member W. N. Selig. We're deep in Gower Gulch here, so Moore's direction of LaRoque is poor; the star sounds befuddled and half in the bag at all times. Fortunately, the script by Willard Mack and James Mulhauser is a good one. With Betty Compson, Jack Adair, and Edward Keane.