This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in New York City Sunday 26 September 1948 on WATV (Channel 13) and in Los Angeles Monday 17 July 1950 on KECA (Channel 7).
Hank Newell signs a confession implicating bill armstrongs and then say, "bill arnstrong will kill me for this". He then swears before a majestrate that he has not been coerced, even though on the previous scene the officers pledged to lean on Newell to get a confession
The police deny Joe Armstrong acess to a lawyer. As a convicted felon, the police say that Anderson has to prove he does not own the gambling joints he is accused of operating. It is the STATES responsibility to prove that Armstrong does own the gambling joints, which is a violation of his parole
The editor of what appears to be a reputable newspaper admits he has knowingly printed libel statements about the d.a.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
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