Black Diamonds

Where there's a disaster, there's reporter Richard Arlen. A town burns down? There he is, snapping his camera and writing his story. A village is destroyed by floods? As a man struggles to save himself by clinging to wreckage amidst the deluge, Arlen takes his picture as he goes down for the third time. His editor decides to send him to Europe as a war correspondent, thinking, no doubt, that he can't do any more damage than the fighting is doing anyway. So Arlen goes to visit his folks in the little mining town. Of course there's a cave-in, which kills his father.

It moves along at a good clip, with Andy Clyde as the comedy sidekick, as well as Mary Treen, Paul Fix, James C. Morton, and Claire Dubrey in a tiny and very funny bit.