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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 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 suddenly victimized. Randall could never imagine the tragedy to follow.
As Randall, Edward G. Robinson finds a role to match his authoritative talents in this hot-off-the-presses Best Picture Academy Award nominee directed for hard-hitting effect by Mervyn LeRoy. Boris Karloff, just weeks away from the release of Frankenstein, plays Randall’s shady lead reporter.
Original Release
09/10/1931
US Release
09/10/1931
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward G. Robinson | Joseph W. Randall |
Marian Marsh | Jenny Townsend |
H.B. Warner | Michael Townsend |
Anthony Bushell | Phillip Weeks |
George E. Stone | Ziggie Feinstein |
Frances Starr | Nancy 'Voorhees' Townsend / Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend |
Ona Munson | Kitty Carmody |
Boris Karloff | T. Vernon Isopod |
Aline MacMahon | Miss Taylor |
Oscar Apfel | Bernard Hinchecliffe |
Directors
Writers
Louis Weitzenkorn, Byron Morgan, Robert Lord
Cast
Name | Character |
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Edward G. Robinson | Joseph W. Randall |
Marian Marsh | Jenny Townsend |
H.B. Warner | Michael Townsend |
Anthony Bushell | Phillip Weeks |
George E. Stone | Ziggie Feinstein |
Frances Starr | Nancy 'Voorhees' Townsend / Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend |
Ona Munson | Kitty Carmody |
Boris Karloff | T. Vernon Isopod |
Aline MacMahon | Miss Taylor |
Oscar Apfel | Bernard Hinchecliffe |
Purnell Pratt | Robert French |
Robert Elliott | R. J. Brannegan / R.J. Brannegan |
James P. Burtis | Reporter |
Richard Carlyle | First Newstand Proprietor |
Frank Darien | Schwartz - Undertaker |
James Donlan | Reporter in Speakeasy |
Evelyn Hall | Mrs. Isobel Weeks |
Gladys Lloyd | Miss Edwards |
Arnold Lucy | Dr. Bevins |
Franklin Parker | Reporter |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hal B. Wallis | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1932 | Oscar | Best Picture | Nominated |