![]() ![]() ![]() Young Englishman Frank Burdon (Sir Rex Harrison) has just arrived in the western Scottish town of Baikie, where he has been hired as a reporter for the Baikie Advertiser by its owner, Horace Skirving (Gus McNaughton), who never prints anything scandalous. Gow has had enough and calls off the trial, restores her dog to Honoria, and regains his popularity. Gow has Burden arrested, but his daughter, when summoned as a witness for the prosecution, announces she has married Burdon and can't testify against her husband. The leader of the Scottish party backing Gow arrives for a dinner at Gow's, but the dinner is broken up by the news that Honoria's impounded dog has been stolen along with many others, and a pack of dogs are soon running loose in Gow's home. Gow is booed off the platform, and word of the trouble in Baikie has reached London, and the town is soon overrun by reporters and photographers. Victoria Gow (Vivien Leigh), William's daughter, has met Burdon and they are mutually impressed with each other, and she understands his reasons for attacking her father. The newspaper's owner leaves town on a short trip, and Burdon re-plates the whole front page with a scathing editorial about Gow that raises a furore in the town. Burdon also dislikes Gow's arrogant and doctoral manner in dealing with other citizens with issues. He is assigned to interview the local Provost, William Gow (Cecil Parker), who is running for Parliament, and comes away unimpressed and indignant at the way Gow refuses to talk to Honoria Hegarty (Sara Allgood), a destitute ice cream vendor who has had her dog taken away from her by the local authorities because of her inability to pay the license fee. Reporter Frank Burdon (Sir Rex Harrison) gets a job on the only newspaper in the Scottish town of Baikie. But at the same time, Burdon and Gow's daughter Victoria (Vivien Leigh) are falling in love. Both are decent men, but a little too proud to back down, and the battle escalates into a criminal case. He sees Gow being high-handed to a woman who can't afford to license her dog, and decides to run that story instead of the expected puff piece. He's told to interview local politician William Gow (Cecil Parker), then left in charge of the paper overnight. A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.įrank Burdon (Sir Rex Harrison) is a new reporter on a small-town Scottish paper. ![]()
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