Roar of the Press

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

Cast

Jean Parker

as Alice Williams

Wallace Ford

as Wally Williams

Jed Prouty

as Gordon MacEwan

Suzanne Kaaren

as Angela Brooks

Harland Tucker

as Harry Brooks

Evalyn Knapp

as Evelyn

Robert Frazer

as Louis Detmar

Dorothy Lee

as Frances Harris

John Holland

as Robert Mallon

Maxine Leslie

as Mrs. Mabel Leslie

Reviews

CinemaSerf

A fast moving story about a honeymooning journalist Wallace Ford ("Wally") who happens across a scoop as an influential industrialist falls to his death from a rooftop. His editor needs (blackmails) him to follow up so we engage in a fine, if predictable, balancing act between his investigation and ...

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