''News Parade'' is a 1928 American

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directed by David Butler and starring Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps and Brandon Hurst. The film portrays the adventures of a

newsreel A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, inform ...

cameraman. Despite poor reviews and only a modest box office performance it was followed by several similar films including '' Chasing Through Europe'' (1929).Solomon p.122

Cast

* Nick Stuart as 'Newsreel Nick' Naylor * Sally Phipps as Sally Wellington * Brandon Hurst as A.K. Wellington *

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as Prince Oscar * Earle Foxe as Ivan Vodkoff - Mysterious Stranger *

Franklin Underwood Franklin Underwood, also known as Frank Underwood during the 1960s, is an American songwriter and jazz pianist. Underwood lives in Manhattan. His show '' Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen'', a musical based on '' The Teahouse of the August Moon'' wit ...

as Bill Walpole * Truman H. Talley as Direct-in-Chief Talley

References

Bibliography

* Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935. A History and Filmography''. McFarland & Co, 2011.

External links

* 1928 films 1928 comedy films Silent American comedy films Films directed by David Butler American silent feature films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films Fox Film films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub