Gentlemen of the Press is a 1929 American pre-Code film starring Walter Huston in his first feature film role, and Kay Francis and Norman Foster plus an uncredited Brian Donlevy in their film debuts.
The film is based on Ward Morehouse's 1928 Broadway play Gentlemen of the Press.
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Preservation
The film survives in a copy sold to MCA for television distribution.
In popular culture
In the 1930 silent melodrama by Yasujirō Ozu, That Night's Wife (Sono yo no tsuma), a poster of this film is prominently displayed (Ozu, who had a "passionate love of American film", according to scholar David Bordwell, often featured in his films posters of movies he liked).