Speakeasy is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code sports drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin J. Burke. The picture was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Lola Lane and Paul Page played the lead roles. John Wayne had a minor role in the film as a speakeasy patron. All film elements to this movie are considered lost, but Movietone discs of the soundtrack survive.

Plot

In the bustling newsroom of a New York daily, tempers flare. A staff reporter has bungled a story, and the irate City Editor (Erville Alderson) threatens to fire him. Amid the chaos, spirited young journalist Alice Woods (Lola Lane) pleads for a chance to prove herself. She convinces the editor to let her pursue an exclusive interview with middleweight champion Paul Martin (Paul Page), a college-educated pugilist who, win or lose, intends to retire after his upcoming fight.