When hard times necessitate returning to his job working for the District Attorney, Bill Reardon (Melvyn Douglas) leaves his detective agency in the hands of his sparkplug of a wife, Sally (Joan Blondell). The break that the business seems to need arrives in new client Lola Fraser (Mary Astor). But when Lola becomes a murder suspect, the Reardons land on opposite sides of the law when Bill is...
