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The Famous Ferguson Case is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film starring Joan Blondell and directed by Lloyd Bacon. Grant Mitchell and Vivienne Osborne appear in support.
The Famous Ferguson Case: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore. Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
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- Crime, Drama
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1932-05-14
'THE FAMOUS FERGUSON CASE' is built upon the contrast between legitimate journalism and unprincipled scandal-mongering." The cigars the New York reporters pilfer off the county prosecutor's desk is a real brand sold at that time called "Van Dyck".
The Hall-Mills case from 1922 involved a sensational double murder with loads of issues with multiple conflicting witnesses, two lovers both with spouses believed connected with the killings, a sensational trial, and a character called The Pig Lady.
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results. A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominent financier George Ferguson is killed.
When wealthy George M. Ferguson is murdered and his wife Marcia is discovered bound and gagged, small town reporter Bruce Foster writes a story about the crime that makes the major newspapers.
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
