What it is:

"Big News" on DVD

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What it's about:

Hard-drinking newspaper reporter Steve Banks (Robert Armstrong) is working on a big story - perhaps the biggest of his career. He learns that the speak-easy he frequents is also a front for a narcotics ring. The owner, a shady crook named Reno (Sam Hardy), tries to squelch Steve's scoop by putting pressure on the publisher to fire him. When that plan fails, Reno frames Steve for the murder of the paper's editor. With an already nasty reputation as a violent drunkard, Steve will be hard-pressed to prove his innocence to the hordes of policemen descending on the press room to arrest him.

Like His Girl Friday, which followed 11 years later, Big News is a fast-paced crime caper with a script full of snappy dialogue, and even features a husband and wife team of ace reporters. Robert Armstrong, who rocketed to fame in 1933 as Carl Denham in King Kong, heads a first rate ensemble cast that includes a young Carole Lombard. Director Gregory La Cava later won two Oscar nominations for Best Direction for his work on My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).

• Starring: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard & Louis Payne
• Featuring: George 'Gabby' Hayes & Lew Ayres
• Directed by: Gregory La Cava
• Originally Released in: 1929
• Number of Discs: 1
• Run Time: 1 hour, 6 minutes
• Video: Black & White
• Region: Region 0 encoding; Can be played worldwide, NTSC-format.

This is a new, factory-sealed DVD of "Big News" on Alpha Video.

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