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Dispatch From Reuters (A Dispatch from Reuter's)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Edward G. Robinson buiIds the worId's first international news agency in this engrossing true story costarring Edna Best and Eddie AIbert. Struggling to establish a system that deIivers messages with reIiability and speed, Julius Reuter (Robinson) becomes a success when he launches a European teIegraph service that transmits news by wire. Competing with a British concern that's out to steal his cIients, Reuter lays a line to a remote coastal town that gives him the lead on American news brought to EngIand by boat. The first to report LincoIn's assassination, Reuter faces ruin when his exclusive causes London's stock market to crash and no one else can confirm the story. Lavishly produced and featuring an extraordinary cast of supporting players, A Dispatch from Reuters was directed by William DieterIe, who specialized in biographicaI dramas and whose The Life of EmiIe ZoIa won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Picture. |
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