Freedom of the Press is a 1928 American silent mystery film directed by George Melford and starring Lewis Stone, Marceline Day, and Malcolm McGregor.Munden p. 274Progressive Silent Film List: Freedom of the Press
Plot When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
Cast Lewis Stone as Daniel Steele Marceline Day as June Westcott Malcolm McGregor as Bill Ballard Henry B. Walthall as John Ballard Robert Emmett O'Connor as Boss Maloney Tom Ricketts as Wicks Hayden Stevenson as Callahan Robert Ellis as Cyrus Hazlett Boris Baronoff as Criminal Morgan Thorpe as Organist Evelyn Selbie as Italian Mother Bernard Siegel as Italian Father Wilson Benge as Butler
Production The plot of the Peter B. Kyne story and the film are based upon the murder of Don Mellett, a newspaper editor who crusaded against corruption in Canton, Ohio. An early version of the film had a private screening at the Capitol Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 15, 1928, in connection with an Associated Press convention.
Preservation A print of Freedom of the Press is listed in the collection of Cineteca Nazionale in Rome.
References
Bibliography Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
Freedom of the Press images at Virtual History.com