Big News (1929)

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75 min - Comedy - 7 September 1929 (USA)

5.9

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A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Robert Armstrong	...	Steve Banks
	Carole Lombard	...	Margaret Banks (as Carol Lombard)
	Louis Payne	...	Hensel
	Wade Boteler	...	O'Neill
	Charles Sellon	...	J.W. Addison
	Sam Hardy	...	Joe Reno
	Tom Kennedy	...	Officer Ryan
	Warner Richmond	...	District Attorney's Man Phelps
	Helen Ainsworth	...	Vera, Society Editor (as Cupid Ainsworth)
	Herbert Clark	...	Pells
	Gertrude Sutton	...	Helen
	James Donlan	...	Deke
	George 'Gabby' Hayes	...	Reporter Hoffman (as George Hayes)
	Vernon Steele	...	Reporter
	Clarence Wilson	...	Coroner

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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. But Steve has an ace up his sleeve that may save him from the electric chair. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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