Behind the Headlines (1937)
Directed by Richard Rosson

Film Synopsis

Eddie Haines is radio station KBC's star reporter.  His talent for scooping big news stories has made him massively unpopular with his rival journalists, not least of whom is his former girlfriend, Mary Bradley.  So eager is she to get her own back on Eddie that Mary resorts to disrupting his broadcasts and stealing his equipment.  One day, Mary gets herself into deep water when she overhears the infamous Martin gang planning to rob a fortune in gold from an armoured car on its way to Fort Knox.  Thinking she can deal with this herself, she hooks up with federal agent Potter, not knowing that he is in the pay of the gangsters!

Before she knows it, Mary is being abducted by the crooks and transported to a cave deep in the mountains of Kentucky.  Unbeknown to Mary, Eddie has also got wind of the heist, but he is too late to prevent it.  With the help of her enemy's stolen microphone, Mary manages to broadcast a frantic call from help from her subterranean prison.  The message is picked up by Eddie and some bona fide FBI agents, who agree to pool their resources to rescue the distressed woman.  But time is fast running out if they are to save Mary and bring her gun-toting abductors to justice...