Break the News (Original title)
Date: 1938 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Rene Clair
Synopsis: Convinced that they are not famous enough, a variety double act decide to stage a pretend murder in a desperate bid for publicity.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Homicide, Vaudeville
Releases
Date: 1938Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 78 mins Length: 7037 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1938 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Rene Clair
Synopsis: Convinced that they are not famous enough, a variety double act decide to stage a pretend murder in a desperate bid for publicity.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Homicide, Vaudeville
Releases
Date: 1938Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 78 mins Length: 7037 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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A Jack Buchanan Productions Picture: Jack Buchanan Productions, Produced by: Rene Clair, Associate Producer: E. Ray Goetz, Production Manager: R.J. Cullen, Associate Director: Albert Valentin, Assistant Director: Bernard WILLIS, Screen Play by: Geoffrey Kerr, Adapted from a story ["Le Mort en fuite"] by: Loïc Le Gouriadec, Photography: Philip Tannura, Camera: William Allan, Supervising Editor: Francis Lyon, Film Editor: Fred Wilson, Art Direction: Lazare Meerson, Dress Designer: Rene Hubert, Song and Lyrics: Cole Porter, Incidental music by: Theo Mackeben, Musical Direction: Van Phillips, Sound Recording: John Dennis, Sound System: Western Electric Mirrophonic, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Jack Buchanan (Edward 'Teddy' Enton), Maurice Chevalier (François Verrier), June Knight (Grace Gatwick), Marta Labarr (Sonia), Gertrude Musgrove (Helena), Guy Middleton (Englishman), Athole Stewart (prison governor), Gibb McLaughlin (night porter), Charles Lefeaux (interpreter), H.R. Hignett (solicitor), Mark Daly (Fred, the property man), John Ambler (press agent), Garry Marsh (Green, the producer), Robb Wilton (taxi driver), Wally Patch (prison guard), Felix Aylmer (Sir George Bickory), Elliot Mason (Annie, Gatwick's dresser), J. Abercrombie (neighbour), C. Denier Warren (Sir Edward Phring), Wallace Douglas (assistant stage manager), D.J. Williams (judge), George Hayes (president of tribunal), W. Fazan (passport official), George Benson (firing squad officer), Hal Gordon (prison guard), Nigel Stock (stage boy)