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Director
  
Duration
  

Music director
  
Jackie Brown

Country
  
United Kingdom

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Running time
  
1h 39m

Producer
  
Language
  
English

Front Page Story movie poster

Release date
  
1954

Based on
  
Final Night by Robert Gaines

Writer
  
William Fairchild (adaptation), Robert Gaines (novel), Jack Howells (screenplay), Jay Lewis (screenplay), Guy Morgan (adaptation)

Initial release
  
January 20, 1954 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
Similar movies
  
The Grey
,
Cast Away
,
Alive
,
Independence Day
,
The Flight of the Phoenix
,
Fire and Rain

Front Page Story is a 1954 black and white British drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan and Eva Bartok.

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Plot

Grant is a hard working Fleet Street newspaper editor who refuses to take a long planned holiday with his wife Susan. Instead, to her annoyance, he stays in his office to deal with a number of urgent stories. These include four children evicted from their home when their mother dies, a woman charged with euthanasia, and a drunken ex-reporter tracking down an atomic scientist. They all culminate in the story of a plane crash, in which Grant is shocked to find his wife listed as one of the passengers. He discovers Susan was leaving him and going away with one of his colleagues. But did she take the plane?

Cast

  • Jack Hawkins as Grant
  • Elizabeth Allan as Susan Grant
  • Eva Bartok as Mrs. Thorpe
  • Derek Farr as Teale
  • Michael Goodliffe as Kennedy
  • Martin Miller as Dr. Brukmann
  • Walter Fitzgerald as Black
  • Patricia Marmont as Julie
  • Joseph Tomelty as Dan
  • Jenny Jones as Jenny
  • Stephen Vercoe as Craig
  • Helen Haye as Susan's Mother
  • Michael Howard as Barrow
  • John Stuart as Counsel for the Prosecution
  • Bruce Beeby as Counsel for the Defence
  • Guy Middleton as Gentle
  • Ronald Adam as Editor
  • Henry Mollison as Lester
  • Critical reception

    The New York Times wrote, "there's nothing wrong with the point of this picture. It just doesn't make it well"; TV Guide found it "a lucid look behind the headlines at the people who get out the news" ; while the Radio Times found it "cosily dated, but an interesting sign of its times."

    References

    Front Page Story Wikipedia
    Front Page Story IMDb Front Page Story themoviedb.org