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Sued for Libel (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
66 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1939 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Leslie Goodwins

Written By:
Wolfe Kaufman
Jerome Cady

Actors:
Kent Taylor ..... Steve Lonegan
Linda Hayes ..... Maggie Shane
Lilian Bond ..... Mrs. Muriel Webster
Morgan Conway ..... Albert Pomeroy
Richard Lane ..... Smiley Dugan
Roger Pryor ..... District Attorney Willard Corbin
Thurston Hall ..... David Hastings
Emory Parnell ..... Jerome Walsh
Roy Gordon ..... Colonel Jasper White
Keye Luke ..... Chang Howe
Edward Earle ..... Judge Samuel Clark
Vinton Hayworth ..... Dr. James L. Bailer
Leona Roberts ..... Mrs. Trent

Synopsis:

Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan Conway) has been convicted of murder. When it turns out that Pomeroy has been acquitted, Steve, his radio station and the newspaper that owns it are slapped with libel suits. It's up to Steve and his reporter friends Maggie (Linda Hayes) and Smiley (Richard Lane) to figure a way out of the mess. Putting their heads together, the threesome tries to solve the murder case themselves, leading to the usual surprise denoument. Fans of the Charlie Chan films will get a kick out of watching "Number One Son" Keye Luke doing a series of celebrity impersonations!

The trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster, arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, owned by the Evening Bulletin, Steve Lonegan waits for a flash from Smiley Dugan so he can broadcast the verdict---But Dugan leaves and asks reporter Maggie Dugan to tip him off it something happens...and something happens when the jury comes in unexpectedly,and this jury comes in with a "Not Guilty" verdict. But fun-loving Maggie, as a gag, phones Smiley and tells him Pomeroy was found guilty, and unreliable Smiley relays this false information to Lonegan who tells a waiting world that Pomeroy was found guilty, signs off the air, locks up the station and goes home...and leaves the station wide open for a million-dollar libel suit. Lonegan and Colonel White decide that the only out from paying Pomeroy a million bucks in a libel-suit is to dig up something on Pomeroy that will force him to drop the suit, and the Colonel dispatches Lonegan out to get this done. Lonegan discovers that a former Pomeroy secretary, Stella Trent, had committed suicide three years earlier, and that a Dr. Bailer was involved. Lonegan and Maggie go to Bailer's office, and discover Bailer has been murdered. Lawyer Justin Walsh drops by the Evening Bulletin and informs Steve and Colonel White that he has just learned that Pomeroy did indeed kill Webster, and he has withdrawn as Pomeroy's attorney. He cites Widow Webster as his source of this information, although, when least heard from, Widow Webster was proclaiming that Pomeroy was innocent.

A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 June, 2014.

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