A Dispatch from Reuters
A Dispatch from Reuters
Release: 1940-10-19
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 6.1
Drama
History
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Edward G. Robinson
as Paul Julius Reuter
Nigel Bruce
as Sir Randolph Persham
Mary Anderson
as Girl with Max (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
as Translator (uncredited)
Irene Coleman
as French Girl in Paris (uncredited)
Lawrence Grant
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Edward McWade
as Chemist Who Poisoned Medicine (uncredited)
Gene Lockhart
as Otto Bauer
David Clyde
as Constable (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
as Laborer (uncredited)
Frank Shannon
as Mr. O'Malley - Captain of the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
Hugh Sothern
as American Ambassador (uncredited)
Edna Best
as Ida Magnus Reuter
Eddie Albert
as Max Wagner
Alec Craig
as Editor Grant of the Morning Advertiser (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
as Opposition Parliament Speaker (uncredited)
Dickie Moore
as Reuter as a Boy
Pat O'Hara
as Reporter (uncredited)
Louis Adlon
as Clerk (uncredited)
Joe De Stefani
as Hans - Gauss' Assistant (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
as Board Member (uncredited)
Harry Stubbs
as Board Member (uncredited)
Theodore von Eltz
as Actor in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood
as News Vendor in Paris (uncredited)
Grace Stafford
as Woman Dancing with Geller (uncredited)
Wolfgang Zilzer
as Post Office Clerk (uncredited)
Georges Renavent
as French Official (uncredited)
Ernie Stanton
as Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)
Cyril Delevanti
as Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell
as Board Member (uncredited)
Harry Cording
as Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)
Egon Brecher
as Von Konstat (uncredited)
Eddie Dew
as Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Weigel
as Professor Gauss (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin
as Board Member (uncredited)
Otto Kruger
as Dr. Magnus
Leonard Carey
as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
Florence Dudley
as French Girl in Paris (uncredited)
Edward Keane
as Reporter (uncredited)
George Ovey
as Postman Delivering Pigeons (uncredited)
Montagu Love
as Delane
James Stephenson
as Carew
Walter Kingsford
as Napoleon III
David Bruce
as Bruce
Cliff Clark
as Reporter (uncredited)
Crauford Kent
as Editor Wanting Contract Voided (uncredited)
Albert Bassermann
as Franz Geller
Lumsden Hare
as Chairman
Mildred Coles
as Augusta in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)
Gilbert Emery
as Lord Palmerston in Parliament (uncredited)
Douglas Gordon
as Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
as Coach Attendant
Georgia Caine
as Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)
Robert Homans
as Reporter (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
