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This Man Is News

This Man Is News1938

★5.377 minMysteryComedy

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

Director

David MacDonald

Writer

Allan MacKinnon Basil Dearden Roger MacDougall

Stars

Barry K. Barnes Valerie Hobson Alastair Sim

Cast13

Barry K. Barnes
as Simon Drake
Valerie Hobson
as Pat Drake
Alastair Sim
as MacGregor
J
John Warwick
as Johnnie Clayton
Philip Leaver
as 'Harelip' Murphy
J
James Birrie
as Doyle
D
David Keir
as Brown
Tom Gill
as Peter Brown
E
Edward Lexy
as Inspector Hollis
Garry Marsh
as Sergeant Bright
K
Kenneth Buckley
as Ken Marquis
J
Jack Vyvyan
as White, a Fireman
John Abbott
as Hood with Foreign Accent

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