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Director
  
Gregory La Cava

Producer
  
Ralph Block

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

Big News (film) movie poster

Writer
  
George S. Brooks
,
For Two Cents
,
Walter DeLeon
,
Jack Jungmeyer
,
Frank Reicher

Release date
  
September 7, 1929

Cinematography
  
Arthur Charles Miller, Norbert Brodine

Cast
  
Robert Armstrong
(Steve Banks),
Carole Lombard
(Margaret Banks),
Louis Payne
(Hensel),
Wade Boteler
(O'Neill),
Charles Sellon
(J.W. Addison),
Sam Hardy
(Joe Reno)

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Big News is a 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Gregory La Cava, released by Pathé Exchange, and starring Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard, billed as "Carol Lombard".

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Cast

  • Robert Armstrong as Steve Banks
  • Carole Lombard as Margaret Banks (billed as Carol Lombard)
  • Louis Payne as Hensel
  • Wade Boteler as O'Neill
  • Charles Sellon as Addison
  • Sam Hardy as Reno
  • Tom Kennedy as Ryan
  • Warner Richmond as District Attorney Phelps
  • Helen Ainsworth as Vera, society editor
  • James Donlan as Deke
  • George "Gabby" Hayes as reporter Hoffman
  • Vernon Steele as reporter
  • Clarence Wilson as coroner
  • Colin Chase as Birn
  • Robert Dudley as Telegraph editor

    • Plot

    Steve Banks (Armstrong) is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret (Lombard), a reporter for a rival paper, threatens to divorce him if he doesn't quit the drinking that is compromising his career. Steve pursues a story about drug dealers even when his editor fires him. When the editor is murdered, Steve is accused of the killing.

    Preservation status

    The film exists in a 16mm reduction print.

    References

    Big News (film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Big News (film) IMDb Big News (film) themoviedb.org