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Break the News (1938)
Directed by René Clair
Music, Comedy · 1h 12m
Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.
Cast
Jack Buchanan
Maurice Chevalier
June Knight
Gertrude Musgrove
Crew
- Director
- René Clair
- Writer
- René Clair, Geoffrey Kerr
- Director of Photography
- Philip Tannura
Details
- Release date
- 1938-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Music, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Trio Productions, Jack Buchanan Productions