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 doesn't 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.