Front Page Story

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

Cast

Jack Hawkins

as John Grant

Elizabeth Allan

as Susan Grant

Eva Bartok

as Mrs. Thorpe

Derek Farr

as Tony Teale

Michael Goodliffe

as Kennedy

Walter Fitzgerald

as Anthony Black

Patricia Marmont

as Julie Black

Jenny Jones

as Jenny Jones

Helen Haye

as Susan's Mother

Stephen Vercoe

as Craig

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