Up for Murder (1931) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1931 · 68 mins · English

Directed by

Monta Bell

Starring

Frank McHugh, Purnell Pratt, Richard Tucker, Dorothy Peterson, Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin

After a young reporter mistakenly kills his newspaper's editor during a heated struggle over the publisher's mistress—who also serves as the paper's society editor—he finds himself entangled in a deadly code of honor. The man who once killed to protect a woman's honor now faces his own reckoning.