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Front Page Story

1954

1h 39m

8.0(1 votes)

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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....

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Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

John Grant

Elizabeth Allan

Elizabeth Allan

Susan Grant

Eva Bartok

Eva Bartok

Mrs. Thorpe

Derek Farr

Derek Farr

Tony Teale

Michael Goodliffe

Michael Goodliffe

Kennedy

Walter Fitzgerald

Walter Fitzgerald

Anthony Black

Patricia Marmont

Patricia Marmont

Julie Black

Jenny Jones

Jenny Jones

Helen Haye

Helen Haye

Susan's Mother

Stephen Vercoe

Craig

Creative team

Directed by: Gordon Parry
Written by: William Fairchild
Jay Lewis
Produced by: Jay Lewis

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