Big News (film)
1929 film
- September 7, 1929 (1929-09-07)
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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".
Plot
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.
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 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
Preservation status
The film exists in a 16mm reduction print.[1]
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". Silentera.com. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
External links
- 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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Films directed by Gregory La Cava
- His Nibs (1921)
- The New School Teacher (1924)
- Restless Wives (1924)
- Womanhandled (1925)
- Let's Get Married (1926)
- Say It Again (1926)
- So's Your Old Man (1926)
- Paradise for Two (1927)
- Running Wild (1927)
- Tell It to Sweeney (1927)
- The Gay Defender (1927)
- Feel My Pulse (1928)
- Half a Bride (1928)
- Big News (1929)
- Saturday's Children (1929)
- His First Command (1929)
- Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
- Smart Woman (1931)
- Symphony of Six Million (1932)
- The Age of Consent (1932)
- The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
- Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
- Bed of Roses (1933)
- Gallant Lady (1934)
- What Every Woman Knows (1934)
- The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
- Private Worlds (1935)
- She Married Her Boss (1935)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
- Primrose Path (1940)
- Unfinished Business (1941)
- Lady in a Jam (1942)
- Living in a Big Way (1947)
- One Touch of Venus (1948)
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