Film
Girl in the News
United Kingdom- Director
- Carol Reed
- Year
- 1940
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
Top cast
Margaret Lockwood
Anne Graham
Barry K. Barnes
Stephen Farringdon
Emlyn Williams
Tracy
Roger Livesey
Bill Maher
Basil Radford
Doctor Threadgrove
Margaretta Scott
Judith Bentley
Wyndham Goldie
Edward Bentley
Irene Handl
Gertrude Mary Blaker
Mervyn Johns
James Fetherwood
Betty Jardine
Elsie
Kathleen Harrison
Cook
Felix Aylmer
Prosecuting Counsel
Roland Culver
Police Inspector (Uncredited)
Mark Daly
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Arthur Denton
Ticket Collector (Uncredited)
Leo Genn
Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Witness (Uncredited)
Michael Hordern
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Directed by
Carol Reed
Written by
Sidney Gilliat
Produced by
Edward Black