a5c7b9f00b Special prosecutor Lloyd Pearson has been murdered and there is strong evidence that gambler Moroni committed the crime, but he has an air-tight alibi, spending the evening with Brad McKay, star reporter of the Chronicle. Norris, the publisher, send Brad and his son, Guy Norris, to cover the story. Brad learns that Moroni did commit the murder, but has no way to prove it. Moroni tells Brad that the murdered prosecutor was getting a payoff, and was killed by his assistant Hugh Walker following a quarrel. John Angus, proprietor of the Hi Lo Club, tells Moroni that Brad suspects him. Phyllis Walker tells Brad that her father is in danger from Moroni. Hugh Walker has given her a key to the public locker where some money is hidden. That night, Brad finds Moroni dead. He realizes there is a higher-up that had Moroni kill Pearson, and then has had Moroni killed. He learns that Walker has been kidnapped, but secures the money from the locker and hides it in his apartment. He meets Alma Dorne at the night club, and, while attracted to her, he suspects she is an accomplice of the gang. He surprises her while she is searching his apartment for the money, and agrees to help him. Norris summons Brad to his home for Brad to show him what evidence he has collected so far. Norris, at the point of a gun, tells Brad he has collected too much. Brad gets the upper hand by telling Norris that his son Guy is walking into a death trap. Norris rushes to save his son from the trap he himself had set for Brad.
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
I agree with many of the previous comments about &quot;The Payoff&quot;, although I&#39;m just not that enthusiastic about it.<br/><br/>The film is a page straight out of the part-crime-mystery / part-comedy genre of the day. It&#39;s true that the dialog is snappy and if you&#39;re in the mood it can be quite engaging. <br/><br/>But it&#39;s also true that &quot;The Payoff&quot; is really more of a theatrical-style of presentation than film. Lee Tracy immediately goes over the top, and stays there, with a very stage-style performance. Too loud, too gestural, too self-entertaining, just plain &quot;too&quot;. The other characters are mostly cliché, too.<br/><br/>I wouldn&#39;t avoid The Payoff if you enjoy 40&#39;s urban crime features. It&#39;s a terrific feature if you&#39;re home sick and need to fill an hour. But I wouldn&#39;t go to any extraordinary measures to see it, either.
Lee Tracy was huge pre 1934 but by the time of &quot;The Payoff&quot; bad behaviour and a drinking problem had just about finished his career. He may have looked older but this film certainly benefited from his peppy delivery.<br/><br/>Chief Prosecutor Lloyd Pearson is gunned down by an unknown assassin. Brad McKay (Lee Tracy) &quot;the best newspaper man in the country&quot;, becomes involved in the Pearson murder after police come after one of his poker buddies, Moroni (John Maxwell). He gives Moroni an alibi, but Moroni, (who is the real killer) sends him on a wild goose chase by telling him the killer is Hugh Walker - Pearson&#39;s assistant, who was disbarred for taking bribes. He also says Pearson was taking a payoff of $100,000. When Moroni is found dead, Brad meets Phyliss Walker (Tina Thayer), her father mysteriously goes missing and they find themselves at a gambling club run by John Angus (Jack LaRue). Evelyn Brent makes an extremely brief though very welcome appearance as Alma Dorn - a mystery woman, who doesn&#39;t seem to have much to do except to give Tracy a big kiss at the fadeout. <br/><br/>Tom Brown, who never seemed to age - maybe that was the reason his career never took off - he always seemed like an over eager cub reporter which is what he played here.


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