被解雇的报社女记者安·米歇尔伪造了一封信给报社,署名“约翰·杜伊”(即无名氏),信上表示对这个充满恶瘤的社会充满失望,决心要自杀。报社为此不得不重新聘用了安来调查此事。然而,没想到此事最终引发了一场政治运动……
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper-box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin, luck is against him, and he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse feed, but suddenly a pl...