Reporters
Classic era films with reporters and / or newspaper settings
Hard boiled reporters , and their Lois Lane counterparts - nineteen thirties staples in crime films , murder mysteries , and screwball comedies
Films set around a newspaper office
Films with photographers
Films with Winchell like columnists - though these bleed over into radio films
Foreign correspondents - mostly World War II , a few Cold War
Not included - films about newsreel cameramen , of which there were several - Too Hot To Handle 1938 best example .
Hard boiled reporters , and their Lois Lane counterparts - nineteen thirties staples in crime films , murder mysteries , and screwball comedies
Films set around a newspaper office
Films with photographers
Films with Winchell like columnists - though these bleed over into radio films
Foreign correspondents - mostly World War II , a few Cold War
Not included - films about newsreel cameramen , of which there were several - Too Hot To Handle 1938 best example .
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- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAdolphe MenjouPat O'BrienMary BrianA crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph BellamyA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyRalph BellamyPatricia EllisEx-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's boss, convinces him of Kean's good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Nolan loses his stripes and Kean isn't allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of his former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees his chance....
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsLola LanePaul KellyTom KennedyTorchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneTom KennedyTorchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsJane WymanAllen JenkinsTom KennedyTorchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneTom KennedyA notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneTom KennedyTorchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneTom KennedySteve promises his captain not to favor Torchy with stories over other papers but becomes frustrated as to how she continues to scoop her rivals.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneWini ShawFemale reporter Torchy Blane teams with her cop boyfriend Lt. Steve McBride to solve the killing of an investor who just bought a popular local nightclub.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneGordon OliverTorchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsGlenda FarrellBarton MacLaneAnne NagelAfter rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentRoscoe KarnsA woman reporter tries to prove she's just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsLee TracyMary BrianDick PowellAl Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has the confession of Frankie on cylinders so Frankie becomes his own bodyguard and information line. One person Al is always taking digs at is crooner Bunny Harmon, because he hates crooners. When he writes a story about Dorothy's blessed event, he comes to regret destroying her life. But more importantly to Al and Frankie, her man may end 'Spilling the Dirt' permanently.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsLee TracySally BlanePaul HarveyLos Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGrant WithersMarian NixonClyde CookA tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murderer.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsRobert ArmstrongCarole LombardLouis PayneA reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessFay WrayRegis ToomeyA rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEdward G. RobinsonMarian MarshH.B. WarnerThe City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean HarlowLoretta YoungRobert WilliamsA young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
- DirectorHoward HigginStarsPat O'BrienMae ClarkeMorgan WallaceA tough, female reporter tries to get a story on the head of a crime syndicate and when the new police commissioner is murdered, she tries to get the evidence she needs for her story by getting in with the mobsters right-hand man.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsCharles BickfordRose HobartPat O'BrienA man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJoan BlondellGrant MitchellVivienne OsborneReporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsSylvia SidneyFredric MarchAdrianne AllenA drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsHelen TwelvetreesRicardo CortezJill EsmondPoster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a showgirl. When Bill sees Tony stab Angelo Spinelli to death in a speak easy, he puts it front page of the Gazette. But on the night that he goes out with heiress Mildred, he slips the diamond that came from Peggy's finger on Mildred's finger and announces his engagement - while tattling about her friends in his column. This gets him in dutch with Mildred and Peggy. At the same time, the cops cannot find Tony, but Tony is looking for Poster to thank him for the publicity.