Badge of Honor

A publisher’s daughter is attracted to a reporter. Buster Crabbe, Ruth Hall, Ralph Lewis, Betty Blythe. Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet., Buster Crabbe plays one of his more offbeat roles in Mayfair’s Badge of Honor. Crabbe is cast as Bob Gordon, a spoiled society boy who finds himself in a small town, rife with political corruption. Hoping to bring the crooks to justice, Bob poses as a hotshot reporter, getting away with all sorts of outrages by explaining “Well, a newspaperman can do a little bit of everything.” He manages to thwart the villains and win the heroine (Ruth Hall), all in a tight 62 minutes. Long believed lost, Badge of Honor was rediscovered in South America in the 1980s: currently available prints are in English with Spanish subtitles., Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.