The story follows (Tyrone Power), an ambitious investigative reporter for the New York Chronicle who has made a career out of writing scathing articles about Sara Farley (Gene Tierney), a wealthy and eccentric grocery store heiress.

: This marked the third and final pairing of Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, following their successful collaborations in The Razor’s Edge (1946) and Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942).

: The film satirizes the "yellow journalism" of the era, where the public's hunger for "freaks served up with all the trimmings" outweighed the value of normal human decency.