The Final Edition
{{short description|1932 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name =The Final Edition
| image = The Final Edition.jpg
| caption =
| director = Howard Higgin
| producer =
| writer = {{ubl|Roy Chanslor|Dorothy Howell}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Pat O'Brien|Mae Clark|Morgan Wallace}}
| music =
| cinematography = Joseph Walker
| editing = Jack Dennis
| studio = Columbia Pictures
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1932|02|12}}
| runtime = 66 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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The Final Edition is a 1932 American crime drama film directed by Howard Higgin and starring Pat O'Brien, Mae Clark and Morgan Wallace.{{cite news|title=Movie Review - - Yellow Journalism. - NYTimes.com|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CEEDB1E3EE333A25751C2A9649C946394D6CF|access-date=August 10, 2017|work=www.nytimes.com|date=February 22, 1932|language=en}} Made by Columbia Pictures, it is based on a story by Roy Chanslor.{{cite book|last1=Gates|first1=Philippa|title=Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film|date=2011|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9781438434063|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQA7sT-Gi54C&q=%22The+Final+Edition%22+1932&pg=PA342|access-date=August 10, 2017|language=en}}Langman p.127
Synopsis
The squabbling city editor and a hotshot female reporter eventually join forces to try to bring down a major crime syndicate, responsible for the murder of the new police commissioner.
Cast
- Pat O'Brien as Sam 'Brad' Bradshaw
- Mae Clarke as Ann Woodman
- Morgan Wallace as Neil Selby
- Bradley Page as Sid Malvern
- Mary Doran as Patsy King
- James Donlan as Freddie
- Phil Tead as Dan Cameron - Reporter
- Robert Emmett O'Connor as Police Lieutenant Daniels
- Bertha Mann as Jane Conroy
- Wallis Clark as Police Commissioner Jim Conroy
- Lydia Knott as Jim Conroy's Mother
- Bill Elliott as Reporter
- Harry Holman as Harry - Newspaperman
- Hal Price as Dave - Bradshaw's Assistant
- Harry Strang as First Selby Hood
- Kit Guard as Second Selby Hood
References
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Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. The Media in the Movies: A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996. McFarland & Company, 1998.
External links
{{IMDb title|tt0022888}}
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Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1932 crime drama films
Category:Films directed by Howard Higgin
Category:Films about journalism
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language crime drama films
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