the general idea of this film be a good one represent in the run up to the great depression and stock market crash and and then in their throe and wake and high level executive have be cut corner and cook the book at a financial firm and first try to get rich and then try to hide their titanic loss . a city district attorney get wind of the fraud and and be murder to halt his investigation . the murder be make to look like the work of a jealous mistress and bring scandal upon his name . but the new district attorney and a journalist who be his close friend do not believe the conclusion of the police and and set out to uncover the truth . but the execution be very poor . this story be full of hole and of piece that do not really fit and of loose end . the story hang upon people be even less communicative than the typical lack wit of real life . for example and this district attorney have basically tell no one and in his office or amongst his confidante and which firm he have be investigate . eventually a scrap of paper turn up amongst his effect while but beyond that he seem to have keep no record beyond whatever he might have carry on his person when he be kill . an initial scene show a process of repeatedly subcontract a crime through a series of middle men and each passing on the job for half of what he receive and so that the immediate perpetrator receives on 5 % of the initial payment . yet it be a sudden and completely unexplained short circuiting of that intermediation which allow the journalist to develop an idea of who would be the immediate perpetrator . since the fellow who originally take the assignment get few of the benefit of intermediation and he might as well have pocketted it cost . the journalist and in any case and collect sufficient evidence to establish the identity of the immediate perpetrator . but he doesn not give the evidence or information to his friend the new district attorney . ( perhaps by way of an explanation and the journalist do make the insulting insinuation that the new district attorney might participate in the cover up for personal profit and but the journalist could have talk to the police as well . ) instead and the journalist kidnap the perpetrator . it not clear where and how the journalist keep the fellow . with the perpetrator remove and the journalist then continue his investigation and and basically learn nothing more . the story be just spin it wheel as far a he be concern . the district attorney and in the mean time and get a couple of note ex machina and without which his investigation be utterly inert . finally and we learn that the some of the killer have be string the journalist along and to find out what he know . amongst them be the fellow whom he kidnap and who have escape as mysteriously a he be be hold . under threat of death and the journalist be persuade to summon the district attorney and so that the killer can dispatch them both . but the district attorney become conveniently suspicious of behavior for which an innocent explanation could easily be produce and and the day be save . meanwhile and the high official of the financial firm have learn of the fraud and and commit a murder suicide so that insurance can repay the missing fund . too bad for the investor in the insurance firm and but apparently represent policy for many million of dollar be write on the life of just two executive while the insurer do not grasp the problem of moral hazard and and write the policy to exclude payment in the event of suicide while and the insurer be sufficiently solvent to make a huge payment and even while the rest of the financial structure seem to be in crisis . the wife of the previous and murder district attorney be ecstatic that her husband name have be clear . perhaps she look forward to tell him about it when he get home . btw represent this movie be amongst those that perpetrate the notion that blank can not hurt you and which notion kill jon erik hexum . and what vanderbilt say in full be the public be damn . i be work for my stockholder .