Gentlemen of the Press is a 1929 all-talking American pre-Code film starring Walter Huston in his first feature film role, and Kay Francis and an uncredited Brian Donlevy in their film debuts.

The film is based on Ward Morehouse's 1928 Broadway play Gentlemen of the Press. The play is a comedy about Wick Snell, a journalist who decides to take a job as a publicist for a real estate firm. After a dispute with his new boss, Snell goes back to journalism.

Brian Donlevy plays a hard-driving corporate executive whose death is plotted by his young wife and her lover.

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