The read
It runs a compact 1h 18m.
Synopsis
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- George W. HillDirector
Cast
- Lee TracyBuckley Joyce Thomas
- Benita HumeKate Nelson
- Una MerkelDolly Winslow
- James GleasonLefty Williams
- Alan EdwardsPettingwaite
- Eugene SigaloffPrince Alexander
- Ari KutaiKostya
- C. Henry GordonCommissar
- Lya LysEugenie
- John BleiferSozanoff
- Lawrence GrantMacKenzie
- Guy UsherJ. H. Stevens
Stills
Themes
reporterpre-codetelegraph