Reporters
by karljhickey14 | created - 24 Jun 2022 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicClassic era films with reporters and / or newspaper settings Hard boiled reporters , and their Lois Lane counterparts - nineteen thirties staples in crime films , murder mysteries , and screwball comedies Films set around a newspaper office Films with photographers Films with Winchell like columnists - though these bleed over into radio films Foreign correspondents - mostly World War II , a few Cold War Not included - films about newsreel cameramen , of which there were several - Too Hot To Handle 1938 best example .
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1. The Front Page (1931)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,449
2. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,145 | Gross: $0.30M
3. Picture Snatcher (1933)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White
Votes: 1,747
4. Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Anthony Averill
Votes: 448
5. Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 456
6. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 425
7. Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Willard Robertson
Votes: 412
8. Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan
Votes: 429
9. Blondes at Work (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Steve promises his captain not to favor Torchy with stories over other papers but becomes frustrated as to how she continues to scoop her rivals.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Rosella Towne
Votes: 503
10. Smart Blonde (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Female reporter Torchy Blane teams with her cop boyfriend Lt. Steve McBride to solve the killing of an investor who just bought a popular local nightclub.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Wini Shaw, Addison Richards
Votes: 716
11. Fly Away Baby (1937)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver, Hugh O'Connell
Votes: 480
12. The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel, Tom Kennedy
Votes: 536
13. Front Page Woman (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman reporter tries to prove she's just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns, Wini Shaw
Votes: 1,723
14. Blessed Event (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 763
15. Advice to the Forlorn (1933)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 94
16. In the Headlines (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murderer.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Grant Withers, Marian Nixon, Clyde Cook, Edmund Breese
17. Big News (1929)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne, Wade Boteler
Votes: 321
18. The Finger Points (1931)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott
Votes: 484
19. Five Star Final (1931)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 2,532
20. Platinum Blonde (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes
Votes: 3,456
21. The Final Edition (1932)
66 min | Crime, Drama
A tough, female reporter tries to get a story on the head of a crime syndicate and when the new police commissioner is murdered, she tries to get the evidence she needs for her story by getting in with the mobsters right-hand man.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Mae Clarke, Morgan Wallace, Bradley Page
Votes: 145
22. Scandal for Sale (1932)
75 min | Drama
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Pat O'Brien, Berton Churchill
Votes: 65
23. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 464
24. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,936
25. Is My Face Red? (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 238
26. Clear All Wires! (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason
Votes: 184
27. Hi, Nellie (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Robert Barrat
Votes: 598
28. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,255 | Gross: $4.36M
29. The Hell Cat (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge for the insult, ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Ann Sothern, Benny Baker, Minna Gombell
Votes: 18
30. Name the Woman (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson
31. Love Is on the Air (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E. Nichols, who is in ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ronald Reagan, June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Ben Welden
Votes: 229
32. The House Across the Street (1949)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A demoted newspaper man tries to regain his position and his dignity by getting the scoop on a local gangster.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale
Votes: 400
33. You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he is to die. She calls in a story about his death and gets ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Graham | Stars: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 256
34. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,044
35. The Love Department (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Columnist Beatrice Blair dispenses love advice to her readers, but can't seem to find her own Mr. Right. Reporter Jimmy Jackson has pursued her but with no results. Blair takes her ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Bernice Claire, Milt Douglas, Billie Leonard, Lou Duthers
Votes: 87
36. The Murder Man (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 1,282
37. Case of the Missing Man (1935)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Roger Pryor, Joan Perry, Thurston Hall, Arthur Hohl
Votes: 28
38. The Payoff (1935)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe is a reporter who is looking for his big break and he gets it when he takes over George Gorman's sports column. Marty is a hood who would fix any sporting event he could and Joe keeps ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: James Dunn, Claire Dodd, Patricia Ellis, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 162
39. I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason
Votes: 578
40. Late Extra (1935)
69 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: James Mason, Virginia Cherrill, Alastair Sim, Ian Colin
Votes: 114
41. We're Only Human (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama
A tough police Detective (Preston Foster), is determined to bring in a gangster, with the help of his newspaper reporter gal (Jane Wyatt).
Director: James Flood | Stars: Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason, Arthur Hohl
Votes: 147
42. The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wisecracking newspaper reporter comes up with what he believes to be the ultimate publicity stunt: have the newspaper offer a $5000 prize to whoever can find Jimmy Valentine, a once ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Roger Pryor, Charlotte Henry, Robert Warwick, James P. Burtis
Votes: 16
43. Beware of Ladies (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female reporter with marital problems is sent by her boss to cover the campaign of a young political neophyte who's running against the local crooked political boss.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Donald Cook, Judith Allen, George Meeker, Goodee Montgomery
Votes: 105
44. Road Gang (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Jim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. The two suffer extreme cruelty due to the sadistic behavior of the warden and guards.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Donald Woods, Kay Linaker, Carlyle Moore Jr., Joseph Crehan
Votes: 192
45. Undersea Kingdom (1936)
Approved | 226 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. ... See full summary »
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue, William Farnum
Votes: 634
46. Libeled Lady (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Votes: 8,912
47. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 840
48. Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Sheila Terry, Eleanor Hunt, Lloyd Ingraham
Votes: 181
49. Wedding Present (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
When Charlie Mason is promoted from irresponsible reporter to hard-nosed city editor, it costs him his girlfriend, ace reporter Rusty Fleming. After he hears she's engaged to another, he quits and tries to win her back.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 735
50. Fugitive in the Sky (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Jean Muir, Warren Hull, Gordon Oliver, Carlyle Moore Jr.
Votes: 227
51. Woman in Distress (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A painting in the possession of an old lady, Phoebe Tuttle, is rumored to be a genuine Rembrandt, and Fred Stevens, ace reporter of the "Dispatch" newspaper, is sent to cover the story. The... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: May Robson, Irene Hervey, Dean Jagger, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 32
52. Woman-Wise (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Crooks use prizefights as setups and local sports editor (Whalen) is out to stop them.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Michael Whalen, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 17
53. Behind the Headlines (1937)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Rosson | Stars: Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Phillip Huston, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 204
54. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,117
55. The Phantom Fiend (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb, Barbara Everest
Votes: 359
56. Riding on Air (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee, Florence Rice, Vinton Hayworth
Votes: 143
57. Exclusive (1937)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charles Ruggles, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 95
58. Fit for a King (1937)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport
Votes: 134
59. Back in Circulation (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel
Votes: 425
60. A Girl with Ideas (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 31
61. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,257
62. Everybody's Doing It (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Sally Eilers, Cecil Kellaway, Lorraine Krueger
Votes: 112
63. The Jury's Secret (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames the city's recent flood against Williams for using his power and influence to hold up ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey
Votes: 34
64. No Time to Marry (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Astor, Lionel Stander, Virginia Dale
Votes: 21
65. This Marriage Business (1938)
Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
New York city reporter Bill Terry (Allan Lane and his photographer-assistant "Candid" Perry (Jack Carson) follow an eloping heiress to a small New York town where he hears the marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Victor Moore, Allan Lane, Vickie Lester, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 156
66. This Man Is News (1938)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
David Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. Kier refuses to give reporter Simon Drake... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, John Warwick
Votes: 130
67. Strange Faces (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
A soon-to-be-married couple, both news reporters, compete to break the story of a high-profile gangster's murder, which was, in truth, a staged crime using a lookalike. As clues emerge, the... See full summary »
Director: Errol Taggart | Stars: Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, Andy Devine, Leon Ames
68. Newsboys' Home (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A clueless publisher's daughter inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys, and proceeds to run the paper to the ground.
Directors: Harold Young, Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 42
69. Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Nancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Dickie Jones
Votes: 1,461
70. The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson, Benny Rubin
Votes: 271
71. Tell No Tales (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Michael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 413
72. News Is Made at Night (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Russell Gleason, George Barbier
Votes: 52
73. Scandal Sheet (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama
Jim Stevenson, publisher of a scandal mongering tabloid, takes pride in publishing only the news that's unfit to print. Stevenson attends the graduation ceremonies at Croft College, where ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris, John Dilson
Votes: 14
74. The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 2,556
75. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
Two competing reporters fall in love with the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner living in hiding.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch
Votes: 254
76. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,715 | Gross: $3.48M
77. The Bride Wore Crutches (1940)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Reporter (North) witnesses a bank robbery, finds the robbers, joins them and .... This impresses his girlfriend (Roberts).
Director: Shepard Traube | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Ted North, Edgar Kennedy, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 23
78. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
79. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann
Votes: 667
80. The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Perpetual optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspire against him: Not only does the car he intends ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, William Lundigan
Votes: 224
81. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,901
82. Washington Melodrama (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A newsman links his fiancee's millionaire father to a chorus girl's murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor, Dan Dailey
Votes: 326
83. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 465,911 | Gross: $1.59M
84. The Strangler (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Mystery
The homicidal maniac,who is strangling young women in London's West Side, is being sought by both Scotland Yard and a young reporter/writer, Penny Sutton. She had found one of the murder ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Huth | Stars: Judy Campbell, Sebastian Shaw, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Edwards
Votes: 69
85. Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 370
86. Superman: The Mad Scientist (1941)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Action
The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati | Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 3,505
87. Public Enemies (1941)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bill Raymond, a hotshot newspaper reporter will all the trappings, is following a story about and looking for the leaders of an alien smuggling gang. Along the way he gets the aid of a ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Phillip Terry, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley
Votes: 32
88. Design for Scandal (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement. But his devious plan to compromise Cornelia Porter, the judge on the case, while she... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman
Votes: 520
89. Woman of the Year (1942)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen
Votes: 11,001
90. I Was Framed (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tod Andrews, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Patti Hale
Votes: 213
91. Murder in the Big House (1942)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Faye Emerson, Van Johnson, George Meeker, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 277
92. Mississippi Gambler (1942)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Frances Langford, John Litel, Shemp Howard
Votes: 43
93. Escape from Crime (1942)
Approved | 51 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Richard Travis, Julie Bishop, Jackie Gleason, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 276
94. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Votes: 977
95. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
96. Journey for Margaret (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
John Davis, a married American newspaper reporter in London, covers the story of a home for children displaced by the war and meets two kids who grow attached to him.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Herbert Kline | Stars: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 965
97. Power of the Press (1943)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger
Votes: 476
98. Headline (1943)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: David Farrar, Anne Crawford, John Stuart, Antoinette Cellier
Votes: 83
99. It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 2,858
100. Silent Partner (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Thriller
Reporters investigating the death of a friend begin to suspect that their newspaper's editor may have been responsible for it.
Director: George Blair | Stars: William Henry, Beverly Lloyd, Grant Withers, Ray Walker
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