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Big News (film)

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==
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==
Preservation status
The film exists in a 16mm reduction print. ==See also==
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