chow Edward Lawrie Tatum (Kirk Stephen A. Douglas) is a ferociously ambitious, egoistic, wisecracking, down-on-his-luck newsman who has work his way down the ladder. He has come up west to New United Mexican States from New House of York metropolis, along the way have be open fire from 11 newspaper for libel, criminal conversation, and heavy imbibing, among other charge. Now that his car has interrupt down and Edward Lawrie Tatum is broke, he talk his way into a coverage job for the Albuquerque Sun-Bulletin, a paper of small effect.