Gentlemen of the Press

May 4, 1929

1h 20m

★ 5.0

WHY WON'T THE NEWSPAPERS GIVE A MAN A LIVING CHANCE. WHY DO THEY DIG UP THE PAST WHEN HE IS TRYING TO GO STRAIGHT?

Overview

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Wickland Snell

Walter Huston

Myra May

Kay Francis

Charlie Haven

Charles Ruggles

Dorothy Snell Hanley

Betty Lawford

Ted Hanley

Norman Foster

Mr. Higgenbottom

Duncan Penwarden

Red

Lawrence Leslie

Copy-desk Editor

Lee Harry

Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)

Brian Donlevy

McPhee - Reporter (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

Copy Boy (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

6.6

Journey for Margaret

Dec 17, 1942

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.

6.7

Five Star Final

Sep 26, 1931

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

6.1

The Underworld Story

Jul 26, 1950

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

6.2

Special Agent

Sep 14, 1935

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

5.8

Her Kind of Man

May 11, 1946

A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.

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0.0

Front Page Story

Mar 15, 1954

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

5.8

The Lawless

Jun 1, 1950

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

6.2

Power of the Press

Jan 29, 1943

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

7.0

Unholy Partners

Nov 1, 1941

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

5.5

The Paperboy

Sep 14, 2012

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

6.1

Lonelyhearts

Mar 4, 1959

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.

6.2

Shakedown

Sep 1, 1950

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

5.3

Tell No Tales

Jun 12, 1939

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

4.5

The Angry Hills

Jul 29, 1959

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.

6.0

The Humming Bird

Jan 13, 1924

A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.

7.0

Come Fill the Cup

Oct 24, 1951

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.

4.9

Exiled to Shanghai

Dec 20, 1937

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.

6.0

I Cover Big Town

Feb 27, 1947

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.

0.0

Scandal Sheet

Jan 31, 1931

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.