The Famous Ferguson Case
6.2
74 minutes
4/19/1932
Overview
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Cast List
Joan Blondell
as Maizie Dickson
Grant Mitchell
as Martin Collins
Vivienne Osborne
as Mrs. Marcia Ferguson
Adrienne Dore
as Antoinette 'Toni' Martin
Tom Brown
as Bruce Foster
Kenneth Thomson
as Bob Parks
Leslie Fenton
as Perrin
Oscar Apfel
as Mr. Brooks
Walter Miller
as Cedric Works
Purnell Pratt
as George M. Ferguson
Willard Robertson
as Sheriff
George Meeker
as Jigger Bolton
Russell Hopton
as Rusty Callahan
George McFarland
as Newsboy
Leon Ames
as Judd Brooks
J. Carrol Naish
as Claude Wright
William Burress
as Dad Sipes
Clarence Wilson
as County Attorney
Russell Simpson
as Banker Craig
Kathrin Clare Ward
as Mrs. Martin - Toni's Mother
George Chandler
as Depot Loafer (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
as Fire Chief (uncredited)
Dick Curtis
as O'Toole (uncredited)
Mike Donlin
as Photographer (uncredited)
James Ellison
as Reporter Lane (uncredited)
George Irving
as Reporter (uncredited)
Si Jenks
as Gas Station Man (uncredited)
Allan Lane
as Reporter (uncredited)
Claire McDowell
as Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Miriam Seegar
as Mrs. Judd Brooks (uncredited)