• Source: Big News (film)

      • 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".


      Plot


      Steve Banks is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret, 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.


      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 Officer Ryan
      Warner Richmond as District Attorney Phelps
      Helen Ainsworth as Vera, society editor
      James Donlan as Deke
      George "Gabby" Hayes as Hoffman, reporter
      Vernon Steele as reporter
      Clarence Wilson as Coroner
      Colin Chase as Birn
      Robert Dudley as Telegraph editor


      Preservation status


      The film exists in a 16mm reduction print.


      See also


      List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)


      References




      External links


      Big News at IMDb
      Big News at SilentEra
      Big News is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: