Movies

The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Preachy journalistic melodrama based, if I remember rightly, on the Hall-Mills case which set the standard for the modern Media Circus. Joan Blondell is top-billed and gets a few stirring speeches out, but it is really an ensemble piece and it's familiar face Grant Mitchell as the most honorable of newsmen who gets the serious ethical monologues. Somewhat less interesting than I had hoped. 4/10