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Director
  
Howard Bretherton

Story by
  
John T. Neville

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Romance

Producer
  
E.B. Derr

Country
  
USA

Star Reporter movie poster

Release date
  
22 February 1939

Writer
  
John T. Neville (original screenplay)

Cast
  
Warren Hull
(John Randolph),
Marsha Hunt
(Barbara Burnette),
Wallis Clark
(William Burnette),
Clay Clement
(Whittaker),
Morgan Wallace
(Joe Draper),
Virginia Howell
(Julia Randolph)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Rampart
,
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Tagline
  
He Asked For A MURDER and HE GOT ONE!

Star Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton.

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Plot

Star Reporter, John Randolph (Warren Hull), with his fiancée, Barbara Burnette, (Marsha Hunt), has faith in her father, D.A. William Burnette (Wallis Clark), and throws the full weight of his newspaper behind him, in hopes of tracking down his own father's killer.

John is convinced that his father was murdered to stop him from revealing the organized crime bosses, in the city. Now, all he needs is proof. Just as he's about to get the goods on the criminal kingpin, lawyer Whittaker (Clay Clement), there is another murder.

Little does John suspect that the confessed killer, Joe Draper (Morgan Wallace) and his own mother, Mrs. Julia Randolph (Virginia Howell) have their own deep, dark secret, from the past: the true identity of her long, lost, already declared dead, husband; and, John's real father.

Whittaker and his mobsters will do anything to close the case. They're willing to shut anyone up permanently, who they can't buy off. John will stop at nothing, to see justice done, even when his own fiancée and Mother warn him that he might not be ready to handle the truth!

Cast

  • Warren Hull as John Randolph, aka John Charles Benton
  • Marsha Hunt as Barbara Burnette
  • Wallis Clark as District Attorney William Burnette
  • Clay Clement as Whittaker
  • Morgan Wallace as Joe Draper, aka Charles Benton
  • Virginia Howell as Mrs. Julia Randolph
  • Paul Fix as Clipper
  • Joseph Crehan as Gordon, Newspaper Editor
  • Eddie Kane as Sam Grey
  • William Ruhl as Police Investigator Lane
  • Effie Anderson as Molly, D.A.'s Secretary
  • Lester Dorr as Reporter Wilkins
  • Monte Collins as Reporter Hogan
  • Denis Tankard as Mason, Burnette's Butler
  • References

    Star Reporter Wikipedia
    Star Reporter IMDb Star Reporter themoviedb.org