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Big News
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 75 minutes
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Cast: Robert Armstrong [Steve Banks], Carol Lombard (Carole Lombard) [Margaret Banks], Louis Payne [Hensel], Wade Boteler [O’Neill], Charles Sellon [Addison], Sam Hardy [Reno], Tom Kennedy [Ryan], Warner P. Richmond [Phelps], Cupid Ainsworth (Helen Ainsworth) [Vera], Gertrude Sutton [Helen], James Donlan [Deke], George Hayes (George ‘Gabby’ Hayes) [a reporter], Vernon Steele [a reporter], Clarence Wilson [the coroner], Fred Behrle [the elevator man], Colin Chase [Birn], Robert Dudley [the telegraph editor], Lew Ayres [the copyboy], Lynton Brent [a reporter], Herbert Clark [Pells], Dick Cramer (Richard Cramer) [a hoodlum], Leon Garfield (Gary Leon) [the rookie cop], Harry Semels [the Reno henchman], Frank Reicher
Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Ralph Block. Screenplay by Walter De Leon and Jack Jungmeyer + [Frank Reicher], from the play For Two Cents by George S. Brooks. Art direction by Edward Jewell (Edward C. Jewell). Assistant director, Marty Santell. Dialogue direction by Frank Reicher. Cinematography by Norbert Brodine and J. Joseph Mescall (John J. Mescall) + [?] Arthur C. Miller? Sound recording by Denzil A. Cutler and Charles Wickes. Film editor, Doane Harrison. / Released 7 September 1929. / [?] Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Full-sound film.
Comedy: Crime.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 May 2021.
References: Limbacher-Feature p. 22 : Website-IMDb.
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