Release Date

19 Apr, 1932

Runtime

01:14: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.

Original Title

The Famous Ferguson Case

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Actors

Joan Blondell

Grant Mitchell

Vivienne Osborne

Adrienne Dore

Tom Brown

Kenneth Thomson

Leslie Fenton

Oscar Apfel

Walter Miller

Purnell Pratt

Willard Robertson

George Meeker

Russell Hopton

George McFarland

Leon Ames

J. Carrol Naish

William Burress

Clarence Wilson

Russell Simpson

Kathrin Clare Ward

George Chandler

Crew

Lloyd Bacon

Courtney Terrett

Howard Bretherton

Jack Okey

Devereaux Jennings

Rufus Le Maire

Earl Luick