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1936 · 10m
Drama
Starring Charles 'Chic' Sale · James Stewart · Granville Bates
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In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

Theatrical
Feb 29, 1936
Director
Edwin Lawrence
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
newspaper gangster witness to murder hometown newspaper editor ridicule local newspaper witnesses gangland killing
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Cast

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C
Charles 'Chic' Sale
Elmer 'Scoop' Stevens
J
James Stewart
Cornelius 'Corn' Stevens
G
Granville Bates
Sheriff (uncredited)
B
Billy Dooley
Zeke (uncredited)
A
Al Herman
Moe (uncredited)
L
Louis Natheaux
Albert 'Pretty Face' Wilson (uncredited)
C
Charles Trowbridge
Ed Rollins (uncredited)
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