Big News | |
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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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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".
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.
The film exists in a 16mm reduction print. [1]