The Crusader (1932 film)
The Crusader is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film based upon the play of the same name by Wilson Collison, directed by Frank R. Strayer, and starring Evelyn Brent. Plot. A pushy newspaper reporter Eddie Crane (Ned Sparks) schemes to get rid of crusading District Attorney Phillip Brandon (H. B. Warner). Complicating matters is the sordid past of Brandon's wife Tess (Evelyn Brent) as well as his sister Marcia's affair with a gangster.