Star Reporter (1939)

Name: Star Reporter
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1939-02-22
Duration: 62 min
Rating: 3.9
Cast: Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement, Morgan Wallace

Star Reporter (1939), directed by Howard Bretherton, starring Warren Hull and Marsha Hunt.

02/22/1939 BR Crime and Drama 1h 2m

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He Asked For A MURDER and HE GOT ONE!

Synopsis

An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.

Howard BrethertonDirector
John T. NevilleScreenplay

About the film

Star Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton, written by John T. Neville and starring Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt and Wallis Clark. It was released February 22, 1939.

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Star Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton, written by John T. Neville and starring Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt and Wallis Clark. It was released February 22, 1939.

Plot

Star Reporter, John Randolph (Warren Hull), with his fiancée, Barbara Burnette, (Marsha Hunt), has faith in her father, D.A. William Burnette (Wallis Clark), and throws the full weight of his newspaper behind him, in hopes of tracking down his own father's killer.

John is convinced that his father was murdered to stop him from revealing the organized crime bosses, in the city. Now, all he needs is proof. Just as he's about to get the goods on the criminal kingpin, lawyer Whittaker (Clay Clement), there is another murder.

Little does John suspect that the confessed killer, Joe Draper (Morgan Wallace) and his own mother, Mrs. Julia Randolph (Virginia Howell) have their own deep, dark secret, from the past: the true identity of her long, lost, already declared dead, husband; and, John's real father.

Whittaker and his mobsters will do anything to close the case. They're willing to shut anyone up permanently, who they can't buy off. John will stop at nothing, to see justice done, even when his own fiancée and Mother warn him that he might not be ready to handle the truth!

Cast

Warren Hull as John Randolph, aka John Charles Benton

Marsha Hunt as Barbara Burnette

Wallis Clark as District Attorney William Burnette

Clay Clement as Whittaker

Morgan Wallace as Joe Draper, aka Charles Benton

Virginia Howell as Mrs. Julia Randolph

Paul Fix as Clipper

Joseph Crehan as Gordon, Newspaper Editor

Eddie Kane as Sam Grey

William Ruhl as Police Investigator Lane

Effie Anderson as Molly, D.A.'s Secretary

Lester Dorr as Reporter Wilkins

Monte Collins as Reporter Hogan

Denis Tankard as Mason, Burnette's Butler

References

External links

Star Reporter at IMDb

Star Reporter is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Text from Star Reporter on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Reporter

Trivia

It premiered on February 22, 1939, a Wednesday.
It runs 1h02 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 11 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.