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Behind the News is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Santley released in USA on 20 december 1940 with Lloyd Nolan

Behind the News (1940)

Behind the News
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Released in USA 20 december 1940
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating53% 2.6923452.6923452.6923452.6923452.692345

Behind the News is a 1940 American drama film starring Lloyd Nolan and directed by Joseph Santley. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording (Charles L. Lootens). It is also known as A Flagpole Needs a Flag.

Synopsis

Recently graduated journalist Jeff Flavin gets a scholarship of six months work for the Enquirer

Actors

Lloyd Nolan

(Stuart Woodrow)Doris Davenport

(Barbara Shaw)Frank Albertson

(Jeff Flavin)Robert Armstrong

(Vic Archer)Paul Harvey

(D. A. Hardin S. Kelly)
And :
Charles Halton
Dick Elliott
Veda Ann Borg
Carol Adams
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