Behind the News
Behind the News
Release: 1940-12-20
·Runtime: 75m
·★ 7.0
Drama
Crime
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).
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Republic Pictures
Cast
Herb Vigran
as Reporter #1 on Phone
Eddie Fetherston
as Toots - Reporter
Eddy Chandler
as Thug
Carol Adams
as Radio Station Mail Clerk
Frank Moran
as Frank - Gym Attendant
James Bush
as Archer's Assistant
Wilbur Mack
as Skeptical Newspaper Editor
Charles Stevens
as Carlos Marquez
Lloyd Nolan
as Stuart Woodrow
Robert Armstrong
as Vic Archer
Paul Harvey
as D. A. Hardin S. Kelly
Archie Twitchell
as Reporter
Elliott Sullivan
as Thug
Harry Tyler
as Monroe
Milton Parsons
as Eddie, tall morgue attendant
Harry C. Bradley
as Justice of the Peace
Veda Ann Borg
as Newspaper Receptionist
Fred Santley
as Reporter
Emmett Vogan
as Judge #1
Frank Puglia
as Tomas Almedo
Frank Albertson
as Jeff Flavin
Eddie Conrad
as Enrico
Byron Foulger
as John - Alcoholic Father
Charles Halton
as Neil Saunders
Charles Smith
as John Grant
Inez Palange
as Almedo's Landlady
Doris Davenport
as Barbara Shaw
Dick Elliott
as Foster
Edwin Stanley
as Judge #2
