The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case

1932 · 74 min · ★ 6.6 · Crime, Drama

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.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon · Written by Courtney Terrett

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Cast

Joan Blondell Maizie Dickson
Grant Mitchell Martin Collins
Vivienne Osborne Mrs. Marcia Ferguson
Adrienne Dore Antoinette 'Toni' Martin
Tom Brown Bruce Foster
Kenneth Thomson Bob Parks
Leslie Fenton Perrin
Oscar Apfel Mr. Brooks
Walter Miller Cedric Works
Purnell Pratt George M. Ferguson
Willard Robertson Sheriff
George Meeker Jigger Bolton

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