Headline Crasher

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Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond in Headline Crasher (1937)

Jimmy Tallant, the care-free son of Senator Tallant, feels compelled to help people he thinks are in distress and, by doing so, stays in trouble of some kind.Jimmy Tallant, the care-free son of Senator Tallant, feels compelled to help people he thinks are in distress and, by doing so, stays in trouble of some kind.Jimmy Tallant, the care-free son of Senator Tallant, feels compelled to help people he thinks are in distress and, by doing so, stays in trouble of some kind.

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Frankie Darro

James 'Jimmy' Forbush Tallant, Jr.

Kane Richmond

Lawrence 'Larry' Deering

Muriel Evans

Edith Arlen

Richard Tucker

Sen. James Tallant

John Merton

Tony Scarlotti

Eleanor Stewart

Helen

Edward Earle

Atwood

Harry Harvey

City Editor

John Ward

Campaign Manager

Don Brodie

Steve
(uncredited)

Bunny Bronson

Blondey
(uncredited)

Wayne Bumpus

News Photographer
(uncredited)

Walter Clinton

Airline Steward
(uncredited)

Dick Curtis

Joe
(uncredited)

Joseph W. Girard

Talllant Associate
(uncredited)

Henry Hall

Powers
(uncredited)

John Ince

Talllant Associate
(uncredited)

Jack Ingram

Al
(uncredited)

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- Leslie Goodwins
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This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. It's earliest documented telecast took place in New York City Sunday 3 October 1948 on WATV (Channel 13); it first aired in Atlanta Tuesday 3 January 1950 on WSB (Channel 8), in Los Angeles Sunday 12 March 1950 on KECA (Channel 7), and in Cincinnati Wednesday 13 September 1950 on WKRC (Channel 11).

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7/10

Familiar but fast-paced B movie

Well, we've got a senator up for re-election, a newspaper out to bring him down for headlines' sake, a gangster with a grudge out on parole...nothing too earth shattering. At the center of the story: the senator's son, the senator's secretary, and a newspaper reporter out for a good story. All pretty standard ingredients; all pretty ably carried out here.

The senator's son is played with some enthusiasm by the dashing Frankie Darro, who has some trouble catching a break in this story but persists nevertheless. Muriel Evans, as the senator's very able secretary, also does well. Kane Richmond, as a reporter whose duty to drum up news events eventually bumps up against his sense of justice, takes longer to come around to the side of justice...but it's a 56-minute movie, which doesn't leave a whole lot of time for the suspense to build.

The trio of stars actually interact well and do succeed in making us root for them down the stretch. A few laughs, a little witty banter, a few standard gangster snarls--it's all a quite enjoyable if slight concoction.