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

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Bibliography

  • Langman, Larry. The Media in the Movies: A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996. McFarland & Company, 1998.