Sam Webster is in danger of losing The Apex Advocate, the small town journal which he has edited for over thirty-five years, to hated business rival Martin Blake. He hires pretty young editor Jerry Hampton, to shake things up and increase circulation, hopefully before his loan comes due. The Advocates' headlines begin to sizzle and advertising sales and readership go way up. But when Jerry uncovers a story revealing that Martin Blake may be behind a phony oil scheme that has fleeced the citizens of Apex for a fortune, Blake pulls out all of the stops to silence The Advocate once and for all.
Sterling Holloway, who provides the comic relief in Back Page, would go on to critical acclaim for his voice-over work in Disney animated classics including Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Alice In Wonderland (1951), The Jungle Book (1967) and most notably as the voice of Winnie-The-Pooh in a series of 1960's cartoon shorts.