ApprovedKing of the Newsboys

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Play Time: 65 mins
Drama, Romance
King of the Newsboys

Overview:
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

Status: Released (1938-03-18)
Screen:Louis Weitzenkorn, Peggy Thompson, Samuel Ornitz
Productions: Republic Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
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There's actually quite a decent degree of chemistry between Lew Ayres ("Jerry") and Helen Mack ("Marry Ellen") in this otherwise unremarkable crime melodrama the sees her leave him for the tantalising life of gangster's moll. Can he win her back? Snag is, it's a bit all over the plac ....

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