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Title:Big News


Date: 1929
Type: Drama / Thriller / Comedy
Rating: 2 Stars 2/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Gregory La Cava
Producer: Ralph Block

Comment
A newspaper reporter (Robert Armstrong) whose drinking is affecting his marriage to a rival newspaper reporter (Carol Lombard). He is investigating a drug dealer who also runs a speak easy, but when the editor of the newspaper is murdered he is the chief suspect and it is estranged wife who has to prove his innocence. This is an uninspiring early melodrama that has a very slow first half but does have an early performance from Carole Lombard.

Actors

Robert ArmstrongRobert Armstrong
Carole LombardCarol Lombard
George Gabby HayesGeorge Gabby Hayes
Louis Payne
Wade BotelerWade Boteler
Charles Sellon
Sam Hardy
Tom KennedyTom Kennedy
Warner Richmond
Cupid Ainsworth
Herbert Clark
Gertrude Sutton

Oscars

None
Production

Pathe