Managing editor Sam Gatlin and his staff assemble the early edition of the Examiner, a morning newspaper in Los Angeles.

Longtime reporter Lady Wilson's grandson pilots a military bomber from Honolulu to New York, intending to set a speed record.

A child is lost and feared drowned in the L.A. sewers during a torrential rainstorm, and Gatlin composes a provocative headline for the news story.

Copy boy Earl Collins considers quitting after failing to place a $1 bet for city editor Jim Bathgate about how many babies a pregnant Italian actress will birth.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote: "[T]he picture sorely lacks the pounding, graphic drive of Mr. Webb's previous directional efforts.