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Behind the News

7.0 75 mins Drama   Crime   1940
Republic Pictures  
Director(s): Joseph Santley

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).

Casts of Behind the News

Lloyd Nolan

as Stuart Woodrow

Frank Albertson

as Jeff Flavin

Doris Davenport

as Barbara Shaw

Robert Armstrong

as Vic Archer

Charles Halton

as Neil Saunders

Paul Harvey

as D. A. Hardin S. Kelly

Harry Tyler

as Monroe

Dick Elliott

as Foster

Archie Twitchell

as Reporter

Eddie Fetherston

as Toots - Reporter

Eddie Conrad

as Enrico

Frank Puglia

as Tomas Almedo

Inez Palange

as Almedo's Landlady

Charles Stevens

as Carlos Marquez

Eddy Chandler

as Thug

Veda Ann Borg

as Newspaper Receptionist

Carol Adams

as Radio Station Mail Clerk

Milton Parsons

as Eddie, tall morgue attendant

Harry C. Bradley

as Justice of the Peace

James Bush

as Archer's Assistant

John Butler

as Skeptical Newspaper Editor

Byron Foulger

as John - Alcoholic Father

Tom Hanlon

as Radio Announcer

Frank Jaquet

as Newspaper Editor Fielding

Wilbur Mack

as Skeptical Newspaper Editor

Frank Moran

as Frank - Gym Attendant

Fred Santley

as Reporter

Edwin Stanley

as Judge #2

Herb Vigran

as Reporter #1 on Phone

Emmett Vogan

as Judge #1

Charles Smith

as John Grant

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