Behind the News (1940)
SEARING DRAMA!
75 min
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
- Release date
- December 20, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lloyd Nolan as Stuart Woodrow
- Doris Davenport as Barbara Shaw
- Frank Albertson as Jeff Flavin
- Robert Armstrong as Vic Archer
- Paul Harvey as Dist. Atty. Hardin S. Kelly
- Charles Halton as Neil Saunders
- Eddie Conrad as Enrico
- Harry Tyler as Monroe
- Dick Elliott as Foster
- Archie Twitchell as Reporter
Crew
- Joseph Santley · Director
- Isabel Dawn · Writer
- Boyce DeGaw · Writer
- Dore Schary · Writer
- Allen Rivkin · Writer
- Jack A. Marta · Cinematographer
- Ernest J. Nims · Editor