

A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.

Mom Norton

A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
1940-07-16
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DISASTER! Doomed to death in a dynamite-loaded mine!
0.0A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.
0.0A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
6.0While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
5.4A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
6.4A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
6.4Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
6.2A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
4.8An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
6.9Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
4.5Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
6.0Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.
7.5Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
5.9A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
6.5A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
4.1High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
7.9An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
7.0A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
3.2Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
5.5Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
5.4The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.