Bucolic lawyer Lynn Hollister fights big-city corruption when he tries to prove that politician Tom Cameron is a crook.

[4] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Thomas M. Pryor wrote: "With more action and less talk, 'A Man Betrayed' might have amounted to something better than just a torpid expose of a political boss.

The plot is talked away in the first fifteen minutes and, except for a lively election-day skirmish between rival mobsters and graveyard voters, there just isn't anything to arrest one's attention.

"[2] The Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote: "As though embossed, a character occasionally stands out on the screen from among the welter of rubber-stamp types.

Otherwise the yarn is one of those murder things with crooks in high and low places, and the hero bent on a whodunit mission to the big city.