The Famous Ferguson Case
The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Cast
George Chandler
as Depot Loafer (uncredited)
Purnell Pratt
as George M. Ferguson
George McFarland
as Newsboy
Dick Curtis
as O'Toole (uncredited)
Allan Lane
as Reporter (uncredited)
Grant Mitchell
as Martin Collins
Leon Ames
as Judd Brooks
Claire McDowell
as Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Miriam Seegar
as Mrs. Judd Brooks (uncredited)
Adrienne Dore
as Antoinette 'Toni' Martin
Tom Brown
as Bruce Foster
Walter Miller
as Cedric Works
Spencer Charters
as Fire Chief (uncredited)
Si Jenks
as Gas Station Man (uncredited)
Willard Robertson
as Sheriff
Russell Simpson
as Banker Craig
Mike Donlin
as Photographer (uncredited)
Vivienne Osborne
as Mrs. Marcia Ferguson
Russell Hopton
as Rusty Callahan
J. Carrol Naish
as Claude Wright
Clarence Wilson
as County Attorney
Kenneth Thomson
as Bob Parks
Leslie Fenton
as Perrin
Oscar Apfel
as Mr. Brooks
George Meeker
as Jigger Bolton
George Irving
as Reporter (uncredited)
Joan Blondell
as Maizie Dickson
William Burress
as Dad Sipes
Kathrin Clare Ward
as Mrs. Martin - Toni's Mother
James Ellison
as Reporter Lane (uncredited)
