Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (
Dan Duryea), who is in the pocket of a gangster (
Howard Da Silva). When he's fired by a big-city paper, the newsman buys an interest in a small-town weekly. It is while thus occupying that man reforms, devoting himself to clearing a black woman falsely accused of murder.
Gale Storm co-stars as Duryea's assistant, who helps him expose an intricate and insidious conspiracy of silence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide