Headline (1944)

Appearing several years before his career-defining role in Black Narcissus, David Farrar plays a Fleet Street reporter who discovers an uncomfortable truth when he sets out to unravel a murder mystery. Anne Crawford, William Hartnell and silent-era idol John Stuart also feature among the top-line cast of this gripping wartime thriller featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Ellington, a keen editor and newspaperman, has been neglecting his wife for his work; she, irked by her husband's selfish behaviour, has been carrying on a mild flirtation with man-about-town Paul Grayson a flirtation which turns to murder. Ellington, smelling a story and not knowing of his wife's involvement, sends his ace reporter Brookie out discover the truth...