Big News (film)
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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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Directed by | Gregory La Cava |
Written by | Walter DeLeon Jack Jungmeyer Frank Reicher |
Based on | For Two Cents by George S. Brooks |
Produced by | Ralph Block |
Starring | Robert Armstrong Carole Lombard |
Cinematography | Norbert Brodine Arthur C. Miller |
Edited by | Doane Harrison |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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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.
- 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
The film exists in a 16mm reduction print.[1]
- "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". Silentera.com. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
- Big News at IMDb
- Big News at SilentEra
- Big News is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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