Pre Code Hollywood Season: FD Cinematheque
Big News (1929)
Director: Gregory La Cava
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne, Wade Boteler, Charles Sellon, Sam Hardy, Tom Kennedy, Warner Richmond, Helen Ainsworth, Herbert Clark, George Gabby Hayes, Vernon Steele, Lew Ayres, Lynton Brent
75 min
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”.
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 Ryan
- Warner Richmond as District Attorney Phelps
- Helen Ainsworth as Vera, society editor
- James Donlan as Deke
- George “Gabby” Hayes as reporter Hoffman
- Vernon Steele as reporter
- Clarence Wilson as coroner
- Colin Chase as Birn
- Robert Dudley as Telegraph editor
Plot
Steve Banks (Armstrong) is a hard-drinking newspaper reporter. His wife Margaret (Lombard), 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.
Preservation status
The film exists in a 16mm reduction print.[1]
References
Film Dialogue 
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