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The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Overview
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.
Length 74 minutes
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 | Spencer Charters | Dick Curtis | Mike Donlin | James Ellison | George Irving | Si Jenks | Allan Lane | Claire McDowell | Miriam Seegar