Girl in the News

Name: Girl in the News
Director: Carol Reed
Released: 1940
Duration: 78 min
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford

1940

Dir. Carol Reed

1h 18m

Synopsis

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.

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Carol Reed

Director

Carol Reed

1906 – 1976

Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949). He won the Palme d'Or for The Third Man and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carol Reed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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