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 does not 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.
See also List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
Big News at SilentEra