Clear All Wires!

Clear All Wires! (1933) is a comedy, crime film directed by George W. Hill rated 6.7/10.

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.

Cast

Lee Tracy

Buckley Joyce Thomas

Benita Hume

Kate Nelson

Una Merkel

Dolly Winslow

James Gleason

Lefty Williams

Alan Edwards

Pettingwaite

Eugene Sigaloff

Prince Alexander

Ari Kutai

Kostya

C. Henry Gordon

Commissar

Lya Lys

Eugenie

John Bleifer

Sozanoff

Lawrence Grant

MacKenzie

Guy Usher

J. H. Stevens