From Headquarters is a 1933 American pre-Code murder mystery film starring George Brent, Margaret Lindsay and Eugene Pallette, and directed by William Dieterle.

The press room is full of half-asleep cynical reporters, a busy switchboard, and small-time criminals who relish the attention of getting their mug shots and fingerprints taken.

But when notorious womanizing playboy Gordon Bates is found shot to death in his penthouse, Manton is literally reduced to the role of bench-warmer.

Stevens is discomfited to find out his former girlfriend, Lou Ann Winton, is a chief suspect as she had tried to break off her engagement to Bates, only to have him attempt to sexually assault her.

Wales discovers Muggs Manton's dead body in a janitor's closet, his throat slashed, putting him in the interrogation room.

It develops that at midnight, Anderzian had hired Muggs to crack the safe and recover the letters, but wandered into the other room and found Bates already dead.

Stevens quietly takes aside Bates' valet, Horton, who had discovered his master's body, and tells him he found out he was a crack rifleman in the British Army during World War I.