Hot News

Hot News

  • Overview
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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 14, 1928

Runtime

1h 12m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

Hot News

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

Clarence G. Badger

Description

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.