Skip to content

Home Discover Journal Library Activity Diary

Search films, shows and peopleSign in

Keep track of every film and show you watch, and see what your friends love.

Follow TellyFlick

ExploreDiscover Journal What to watch tonight Coming up Browse by genre

TellyFlickAbout Guides TellyFlick Plus Privacy Terms

Get the app

Coming soon toApp StoreGet it onGoogle Play

© 2026 TellyFlickLanguageFilm and TV data from TMDB. Streaming data by JustWatch. About · Privacy · Terms

News Is Made at Night

1939 · Alfred L. Werker · 75 min

Sign in to add this to your library, rate it and log it.

Sign in

Not streaming in the United States

It isn’t streaming anywhere right now.

Where to watch it in every country ›

Adtellyflick.com

Watch it with a friend

Invite a friend to TellyFlick and see what you both want to watch.

Invite a friend

THE MAN WHO LIVED A FANTASTIC HOAX AND VICTIMIZED A NATION!

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

Preston FosterSteve Drum

Lynn BariMaxine Thomas

Russell GleasonAlbert Hockman

George BarbierClanahan

Eddie CollinsBilliard

Minor WatsonCharles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey

Charles HaltonLt. Governor Elmer Hinge

Paul HarveyInspector Melrose

Richard LaneBarney Basely

Charles LaneDistrict Attorney Rufe Reynolds

Betty CompsonKitty Truman

Paul FixJoe Luddy

Paul GuilfoyleBat Randall EErnie AlexanderDrunk

Irving BaconMike, Fingerprint Man

Cast

Preston FosterSteve Drum

Lynn BariMaxine Thomas

Russell GleasonAlbert Hockman

George BarbierClanahan

Eddie CollinsBilliard

Minor WatsonCharles Coulton AKA Clifford Mussey

Charles HaltonLt. Governor Elmer Hinge

Paul HarveyInspector Melrose

Richard LaneBarney Basely

Charles LaneDistrict Attorney Rufe Reynolds

Betty CompsonKitty Truman

Paul FixJoe Luddy

Paul GuilfoyleBat Randall EErnie AlexanderDrunk

Irving BaconMike, Fingerprint Man

More like this

Hostile Takeover

Fun with Dick and Jane

Shadow of the Thin Man

No Name on the Bullet

Song of the Thin Man