Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
Two brothers try to out-smart each other...because their jobs demand it!
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Romance, Crime
Runtime : 1H 8M
Director : James P. Hogan
Synopsis
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show around him. Liz Madison is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is a throwback to gentler times. Besides their journalistic occupations, one other similar aspect between Tom and Liz is that they are both currently single, with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that special someone for their personal life. On November 2, the staff at the Voice learn that the Sun ownership has bought their newspaper, with the probable goal of folding it into the operations of the Sun. If this move does happen, the staff at the Voice will lose their jobs. To fight back, Liz decides to change her column to an editorial espousing the meaning of Christmas and the newspaper to the community...
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