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Live News (1927)
Short | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Live News (1927)

Short | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Johnny is a reporter on a big city newspaper. He is always about three hours behind the news, and his editor is about through with him. Anita, a jazz gunwoman, has been sentenced to Sing Sing and is to be sent up the river to begin serving...See moreJohnny is a reporter on a big city newspaper. He is always about three hours behind the news, and his editor is about through with him. Anita, a jazz gunwoman, has been sentenced to Sing Sing and is to be sent up the river to begin serving her sentence that afternoon. The managing editor wants an interview with her but all his reporters are out. The managing editor decides to give Johnny a final chance and sends him on the assignment. Johnny rushes to the station just in time to catch the train. He finds the murderess chained to the sheriff. He is trying to interview her when the sheriff gets something in his eye. The officer asks Johnny to watch the girl while he removes the dirt from his eye. Johnny is and cuffed to Anita. Fred, the husband of the vamp, has been following her and attempts several times to rescue her. He is foiled, but when the train stops, Anita drags Johnny out after locking the sheriff in the washroom. She drags the protesting Johnny to a hotel, and waits for her husband to complete the rescue. Johnny falls out of the window and the handcuff chain is broken. He phones his newspaper that he has the vamp locked in a room in the hotel, and then he returns to his captive. When Anita discovers the broken chain, she forces Johnny into a closet and compels him to change clothes with her. Then she escapes and goes away with her husband. Johnny is desperate when he sees that he has lost the prisoner. The newspaper reporters arrive just in time to see Johnny come out in female attire. They, of course, start to kid him. But Johnny is mad and he starts on the trail of the notorious gunwoman. And it is not long before he captures her. Then Johnny is reinstated in his job. Written by Press Sheet from Library of Congress See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Johnny Arthur The Young Reporter The Young Reporter See fewer	The Monster (1925)
Anita Garvin The Queen of the Underworld The Queen of the Underworld See fewer	Blotto (1930)
Robert Graves The Editor The Editor See fewer	Madame Spy (1934)
Fred Spencer The Husband The Husband See fewer	The Sea Hawk (1924)