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"Early in this brisk dramedy, a jaded newsman laments that some reporters furnish the manure while some grow the flowers. Editor Joe Randall's newspaper is suddenly in the manure biz. To increase readership and revenues, he's pressured against his principles to come up with a sensatio...

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Corporate Authors: First National Pictures, Inc, Vitaphone Corp, Warner Bros, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987 (Director), Morgan, Byron (Screenwriter), Lord, Robert, 1900-1976 (Screenwriter), Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 (Actor), Marsh, Marian, 1913-2006 (Actor), Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969 (Actor), Warner, H. B. (Henry Byron), 1876-1958, Bushell, Anthony, 1904-1997 (Actor), Stone, George E., 1903-1967 (Actor), Starr, Frances (Actor), Munson, Ona, 1906-1955 (Actor), MacMahon, Aline, 1899-1991 (Actor), Apfel, Oscar, 1879-1938 (Actor), Pratt, Purnell (Actor), Elliott, Robert, 1879-1951 (Actor), Weitzenkorn, Louis, 1893-1943
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Burbank, CA : Warner Brothers, [2010]
Edition:Remastered ed.
Series:Archive collection.
Subjects:
Journalists > Drama.
Newspaper publishing > Drama.
Sensationalism in journalism > Drama.
Situation ethics > Drama.
Suicide > Drama.
Journalists.
Newspaper publishing.
Sensationalism in journalism.
Situation ethics.
Suicide.
Feature films > United States.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Drama.
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Summary:"Early in this brisk dramedy, a jaded newsman laments that some reporters furnish the manure while some grow the flowers. Editor Joe Randall's newspaper is suddenly in the manure biz. To increase readership and revenues, he's pressured against his principles to come up with a sensationalist tale or two. So Randall revisits a love-nest murder of years past. Circulation soars. But living people - real people - involved in the story are victimized. Randall could never imagine the tragedy to follow."--Container.
Item Description:"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container.
Based on the play by Louis Weitzenkorn.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (89 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD-R, NTSC ; Dolby digital, mono.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Editor, Frank Ware; photography, Sol Polito.