Jan 18th   
Front Page Story**    
(GB 1953)  
British Lion. 99m. bw

A newspaper editor forsakes his wife on a busy news day.
Solidly proficient depiction of journalistic practices on a national daily, generally more interesting and moving in its sub-plots than in its central drama, which nowadays looks staid and archaic.

Written by: Jack Howells, Jay Lewis, from the novel "Final Night" by Robert Graves.
Producer: Jay Lewis. 
Director: Gordon Parry.
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Derek Farr, Michael Goodliffe, Eva Bartok, Walter Fitzgerald, Martin Miller, Patricia Marmont, Joseph Tomelty, Helen Haye, Ronald Adam. 
Photography: Gilbert Taylor.
Music: Jackie Brown.

Preceded by: 
Opening of the Kiel Canal
(GB 1895. 14sec. bw. silent; p: Birt Acres, Robert W. Paul; d/ph: Birt Acres.)

Movietonews (1978)
[National Toy Fair at Birmingham NEC plus Star Wars exhibition at Oxford Street]