Girl in the News
Overview
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Margaret Lockwood
Anne Graham
Barry K. Barnes
Stephen Farringdon
Emlyn Williams
Tracy
Roger Livesey
Bill Maher
Basil Radford
Doctor Threadgrove
Margaretta Scott
Judith Bentley
Wyndham Goldie
Edward Bentley
Irene Handl
Gertrude Mary Blaker
Mervyn Johns
James Fetherwood
Kathleen Harrison
Cook
Felix Aylmer
Prosecuting Counsel
Roland Culver
Police Inspector (Uncredited)
Leo Genn
Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Witness (Uncredited)
Michael Hordern
Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited)
Gordon McLeod
Chief Inspector (Uncredited)
Charles Paton
Chemist (Uncredited)
Jack Raine
Detective Smith (Uncredited)
Edward Rigby
Hospital Secretary (Uncredited)
Jerry Verno
Charlie, Prisoner in Police Car (Uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Writers
- Sidney Gilliat
- Producers
- Edward Black
- Cinematography
- Otto Kanturek
- Composer
- Louis Levy,Charles Williams
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CinemaSerf
June 23, 2022
This has three strong ingredients for a murder mystery - Carol Reed in the chair, Sidney Gilliat at the typewriter and Margaret Lockwood on top form as the nurse "Anne Grahame". The latter is looking after a cantankerous old woman who is found dead by poisoning. Lockwood is tried for the murder, but is ably defended by "Stephen Farringdon" (Barry Barnes) and acquitted. In order to avoid the stigma, she changes her name to "Anne Lovell" and starts to look after another old person - this time one …