The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film starring Joan Blondell and directed by Lloyd Bacon.

Brooks is an up and coming teller at the local bank, upon which the town's giant factory and financial stability depend.

They are divided into two camps: the boring "responsible" newsmen, who only report the facts; and the flashy "tabloid" types that goose stories (and make them up if they have to).

The leader of the swashbucklers is Bob Parks, who immediately wraps Foster around his finger and makes a play for Toni.

With little more to go on to fuel their fires for more sensational storylines, the top movers among the "yellow journalists" start manipulating the local D.A., driving him towards rash actions.

They then harass Jud's wife, who claims to know nothing and collapses and tumbles down a flight of stairs when she's badgered that her husband is in a hot and heavy affair with Mrs. Ferguson.

Things get so bad the dean of the straight-laced reporters, Martin Collins, crashes the party the sensationalists are holding to celebrate their success, and lectures them sternly on journalistic ethics.

from a newsboy ring out, announcing that while everyone else was preoccupied with events in Cornwall Foster had done true investigative reporter work, found the real killers of Ferguson in Boston, sent the story to all the major papers, and in the process set up the vacation of Vivian Ferguson's trial.