Sued for Libel (1939)
Sued for Libel (1939)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 4350 kbps | 2.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps
01:06:00 | USA | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 4350 kbps | 2.5Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps
01:06:00 | USA | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When he's sued for libeling a murder suspect, a hot shot reporter decides to solve the crime himself.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Cast: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lilian Bond, Morgan Conway, Richard Lane, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall, Emory Parnell, Roy Gordon, Keye Luke, Edward Earle, Vinton Hayworth, Leona Roberts, Stanley Blystone, Lynton Brent, Lester Dorr, Jack Egan, Douglas Evans, Robert Fiske, William Haade, Ruth Lee, Harold Miller, Lee Phelps, Ronald R. Rondell, Dick Rush, Walter Sande, Solly Ward, Carleton Young
Steve Lonegan the director of a radio dramatization of current events, is slapped with a libel suit when he mistakenly broadcasts that Albert Pomeroy, a prominent broker, has been found guilty of the murder of his partner, Edward Webster, when in reality, Pomeroy has been acquitted of the crime. Convinced that Pomeroy is guilty, Steve determines to avert the suit by launching his own investigation. In his crusade, Steve is joined by Smiley Dugan and Maggie Shane, the two reporters who inadvertently fed Steve the wrong verdict. When Maggie remembers that Pomeroy's secretary, Stella Trent, had committed suicide several years earlier, Steve telephones James Bailer, the doctor on the Trent case. By the time Maggie and Steve arrive at Bailer's office however, the doctor has been murdered. Bailer's death motivates the reopening of the Trent suicide case. While questioning Stella's mother, Steve begins to suspect a romantic involvement between Stella and Pomeroy, and to force Pomeroy's hand, Steve stages a radio reenactment of Stella's diary. Soon afterward, Pomeroy's attorney, Walsh, visits the radio station with information that Webster's wife Muriel, who had testified to Pomeroy's innocence, now admits that he killed her husband. For protection, Walsh sends Muriel to his lodge in the mountains, accompanied by Maggie, and during the drive, Muriel tells Maggie that she lied to protect her husband's investments in Pomeroy's brokerage firm. To pressure Pomeroy, Steve announces that Stella's murderer will be arrested that night, prompting Pomeroy to follow Muriel to the mountains. Meanwhile, at the lodge, Maggie discovers that Muriel has lied about her relationship with Bailer, and confronted with her deception, Muriel admits to commiting all the murders. At that moment, Pomeroy appears and accuses Muriel of framing him. In the ensuing struggle, Muriel escapes and runs outside just as Steve and Smiley arrive. Muriel tells the unwitting Steve that Pomeroy is inside, and after she insists they telephone the police, the pair drives off. To warn Steve of the danger, Maggie broadcasts Muriel's guilt over the radio, prompting Muriel to wrestle with Steve for control of the car. As the car careens over a cliff Steve jumps to safety while Muriel plunges to her death. With the real murderer unmasked, Pomeroy drops his libel suit, and Steve and Maggie decide to marry
Sued for Libel (1939)
Sued for Libel (1939)
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The trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster,arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, owned by the Evening Bulletin, Steve Lonegan waits for a flash from Smiley Dugan so he can broadcast the verdict–-But Dugan leaves and asks reporter Maggie Dugan to tip him off it something happens…and something happens when the jury comes in unexpectedly,and this jury comes in with a "Not Guilty" verdict. But fun-loving Maggie, as a gag, phones Smiley and tells him Pomeroy was found guilty, and unreliable Smiley relays this false information to Lonegan who tells a waiting world that Pomeroy was found guilty, signs off the air, locks up the station and goes home…and leaves the station wide open for a million-dollar libel suit. Lonegan and Colonel White decide that the only out from paying Pomeroy a million bucks in a libel-suit is to dig up something on Pomeroy that will force him to drop the suit, and the Colonel dispatches Lonegan out to get this done. Lonegan discovers that a former Pomeroy secretary, Stella Trent , had committed suicide three years earlier, and that a Dr. Bailer was involved. Lonegan and Maggie go to Bailer's office, and discover Bailer has been murdered.Lawyer Justin Walsh drops by the Evening Bulletin and informs Steve and Colonel White that he has just learned that Pomeroy did indeed kill Webster, and he has withdrawn as Pomeroy's attorney. He cites Widow Webster as his source of this information,although, when least heard from, Widow Webster was proclaiming that Pomeroy was innocent.
~ Les Adams
Sued for Libel (1939)
Sued for Libel (1939)
