A little girl falls asleep as her parents and their friends discuss the film "The Front Page", and she dreams about reporters, a cop, and an escaped convict (all played by children).
This is supposedly the first film appearance of Shirley Temple. This is also the first of the "Baby Burlesk" series. Toddlers in diapers act out adult roles. In this one, the children's dialog is spoken by an adult doing comical voices and accents. (Later shorts had the children speaking their own lines.) The parody plot here makes sense to anyone who has seen The Front Page (1931) or any of its remakes, but is probably bewildering to anyone else. It does not really matter!
Director: Ray Nazarro.
Cast: The Baby Stars, Billy Bletcher, Georgie Smith, Shirley Temple.
USA, 1932.
Language: English.
Download Runt Page. 1932.