Movie

News Is Made at Night

Released: July 20, 1939 (1939)

Runtime: 75 minutes

Genres: Action, Comedy

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

George Barbier as Clanahan
Age at release: 74
Charles Halton as Lt. Governor Elmer Hinge
Age at release: 63
Eddie Collins as Billiard
Age at release: 56
Paul Harvey as Inspector Melrose
Age at release: 56
Minor Watson as Charles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey
Age at release: 49
Richard Lane as Barney Basely
Age at release: 40
Preston Foster as Steve Drum
Age at release: 38
Charles Lane as District Attorney Rufe Reynolds
Age at release: 34
Russell Gleason as Albert Hockman
Age at release: 31
Lynn Bari as Maxine Thomas
Age at release: 25

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Jack Richardson as Golfer
Age at release: 68
George Guhl as Turnkey
Age at release: 63
Robert Emmett Keane as Fred Barrett
Age at release: 56
James C. Morton as Bartender
Age at release: 54
Wade Boteler as Warden
Age at release: 50
Ernie Alexander as Drunk
Age at release: 49
Jack Norton as Drunk
Age at release: 49
William Irving as Drunk
Age at release: 46
Irving Bacon as Mike, Fingerprint Man
Age at release: 45
Arthur Rankin as Secretary
Age at release: 43
Betty Compson as Kitty Truman
Age at release: 42
Eugene Borden as Headwaiter
Age at release: 42
George O'Hara as Usher
Age at release: 40
Paul Fix as Joe Luddy
Age at release: 38
Paul Guilfoyle as Bat Randall
Age at release: 37
Harold Goodwin as Simms
Age at release: 36
Alberto Morin as Waiter
Age at release: 36
J. Anthony Hughes as Guard
Age at release: 35
David Newell as Starter
Age at release: 34
Imboden Parrish as Reporter
Age at release: Unknown