While the City Sleeps

After the elderly Amos Kyne dies, his arrogant son Walter takes over the family news empire. He decides he wants to appoint an executive director to help him out. Not knowing which of his three senior executives - representing their wire service, daily newspapers and TV news - to select, he tells them that one who gets the scoop on a string of sex murders will get the job. TV newsman Ed Mobley hopes the the newspaper editor, Jon Day Griffith, will get the job and so sets out to help him find the killer. With information from his police contact, he challenges the killer on air putting himself and his fiancée in danger.