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Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
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Chris Hunter
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Alma Harding
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Bill Dennis
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'Gabby' MacArthur
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Joselito
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Parsons
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Hulda
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Mrs. Harding
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'Pearly' Todd
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Miss Wayne
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'Popoff'
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Gumpert
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Willie
Lillie Mui ...
'Tootsie'
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'Fake' Hulda
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ernie Alexander ...
Projectionist (uncredited)
Eddie Arden ...
Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Waiter (uncredited)
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MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
Margaret Bert ...
Office Worker (uncredited)
William Broadus ...
Medicine Man (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Bill Carey ...
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Thomas Carr ...
Man (uncredited)
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Coast Guard Radio Operator (uncredited)
Luke Chan ...
Wong (uncredited)
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Cameraman (uncredited)
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Office Worker (uncredited)
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Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
Nick Copeland ...
Still Cameraman (uncredited)
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South American Fire Dancer (uncredited)
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Todd's Secretary (uncredited)
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First Advertising Man (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson ...
Film Cutter (uncredited)
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Still Cameraman (uncredited)
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Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)
Mimi Doyle ...
Sob Sister (uncredited)
Charles Dunbar ...
Expressman (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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Native Chief (uncredited)
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Assistant Dubber (uncredited)
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Young Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Fleischmann ...
Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Jessie Fung ...
Chinese Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Chinese Sergeant (uncredited)
Natalie Garson ...
Stewardess (uncredited)
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Mr. Fairfield (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Coast Guard Captain (uncredited)
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Foreign Editor (uncredited)
David Kerman ...
Still Cameraman (uncredited)
Paul King ...
Bellhop (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
Eddie Lee ...
Chinese Officer (uncredited)
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Charlie (uncredited)
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Harry Harding (uncredited)
Wilbur Mar ...
Chinese Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Pedro (uncredited)
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Cameraman (uncredited)
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart ...
Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
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Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
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First Flyer (uncredited)
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Still Cameraman (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Ken Nolan ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Ted Oliver ...
Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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Coast Guard Attendant (uncredited)
Franklin Parker ...
Attendant (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ...
Policeman (uncredited)
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Mrs. Arthur MacArthur (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Cameraman (uncredited)
Don Roberts ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Morgan Roberts ...
Medicine Man (uncredited)
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Second Flyer (uncredited)
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Cameraman (uncredited)
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Second Newsboy (uncredited)
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Second Advertising Man (uncredited)
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Gunman (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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San Francisco Airport Official (uncredited)
Frank Tomick ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Wally--Sound Mixer (uncredited)
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Native (uncredited)
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Mr. Rodney--Lawyer (uncredited)
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Newsreel Man (uncredited)
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'Fake' Mrs. Harding (uncredited)
Martin Wilkins ...
Native Guide (uncredited)
Ernest Wilson ...
Medicine Man (uncredited)

Directed by

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Jack Conway

Written by

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Laurence Stallings ... (screen play) and
John Lee Mahin ... (screen play)
 
Len Hammond ... (based on a story by)
 
Buster Keaton ... () (uncredited)
 
Leon Gordon ... () (uncredited)
 
Howard Emmett Rogers ... () (uncredited)
 
Maurine Dallas Watkins ... () (uncredited)

Produced by

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Lawrence Weingarten ... producer

Music by

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Franz Waxman

Cinematography by

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Harold Rosson ... (photographed by)

Editing by

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Frank Sullivan ... film editor

Art Direction by

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Cedric Gibbons

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Joseph M. Newman ... assistant director (uncredited)
Richard Rosson ... second unit director (uncredited)
Harrold Weinberger ... assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Daniel B. Cathcart ... associate art director
Edwin B. Willis ... associate art director

Sound Department

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Douglas Shearer ... recording director

Special Effects by

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A. Arnold Gillespie ... special effects (as Arnold Gillespie)

Stunts

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Paul Mantz ... stunt pilot (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Clyde De Vinna ... photographer: Dutch Guiana (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Dolly Tree ... wardrobe
Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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George Bassman ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Murray Cutter ... orchestrator (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Wallace Worsley Jr. ... script clerk (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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John Hoffman ... montage effects
Ray June ... fill-in photographer (uncredited)
Buster Keaton ... gag man (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him. Written by Tom Zoerner

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Taglines Love Scoops the world's hottest news . . . ! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Let 'Em All Talk (United States)
  • Un envoyé très spécial... (France)
  • Liebe, die vom Himmel fällt (Germany)
  • Abenteuer in China (Germany)
  • Sucedió en China (Spain)
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  • 107 min
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Budget $1,564,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Production was delayed in August, 1938, when three hundred African-American extras working on the film went on strike. See more »
Goofs When Chris is screening the raw footage of the plane crash, it is already completely edited with multiple camera angles and shot with various lenses, even though only one camera was supposedly used to film it, and the footage is supposed to be raw. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939). See more »
Soundtracks Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves) See more »
Crazy Credits We wish to thank Her Majesty's Governor of Netherlands Guiana for permitting our expedition to enter the jungles of the Tottiekampu country. Our thanks also to Chief Moi of the Matawais tribe for allowing us to record for the first time the sights and sounds of the Djuka Fire Dance Ritual. See more »
Quotes Christopher 'Chris' Hunter: I'm not distorting the truth. I'm heightening the composition.
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