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Headline Shooter is a 1933 American pre-Code drama about the life of a newsreel photographer. Director Otto Brower intertwined the screenplay written by Agnes Christine Johnston, Allen Rivkin, and Arthur Kober, with actual newsreel footage of natural and man-made disasters.
Headline Shooter: Directed by Otto Brower. With William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Jack La Rue. The adventures of a wayward newsreel cameraman.
- (187)
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Otto Brower
- 1933-07-28
Apr 4, 2019 · Headline Shooter (1933) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #HeadlineShooterIn this crackling pre-Code caper, RKO takes us on a behind the scenes look at the adrenali...
- 3 min
- 394
- Warner Bros. Classics
Synopsis. While shooting film footage of an earthquake, newsreel cameraman Bill Allen meets and quarrels with newspaper reporter Jane Mallory, whose "sob sister" column Bill loathes.
- Otto Brower, Ray Lissner
- William Gargan
Dispatched to Mississippi to cover a flood, newsreel man Bill (William Gargan), spurned suitor of reporter Jane (Frances Dee), is introduced to her hometown boyfriend (Ralph Bellamy), forming a quick alliance in Headline Shooter, 1933.
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
"Headline Shooter" is a quick-moving, entertaining little film with excellent use of contemporary newsreel footage. A hotshot independent newsreel cameraman (Gargan), always on the prowl for a great story, crosses paths and falls in love with a newspaper columnist (Dee).
