Headline Crasher (1937)

Director
Leslie Goodwins

Main cast
Frankie Darro; Kane Richmond; Muriel Evans; Richard Tucker

Genres
Mystery

Description
The popular B-flick team of Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond star in the slick quickie Headline Crasher. Little Frankie and Big Kane play a pair of roving journalists who investigate a politician (Richard Tucker) up for re-election. When it seems as though the politico is being set up for a fall by yellow journalists, Darro and Richmond try to get to the truth of the matter. The original story for Headline Crasher is credited to Peter B. Kyne, creator of the "Broncho Billy" western stories.


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