Top billed cast

1. 

   Humphrey Bogart

   Ed Hutcheson

2. 

   Ethel Barrymore

   Margaret Garrison

3. 

   Kim Hunter

   Nora Hutcheson

4. 

   Ed Begley

   Frank Allen

5. 

   Warren Stevens

   George Burrows

6. 

   Paul Stewart

   Harry Thompson

7. 

   Martin Gabel

   Tomas Rienzi

8. 

   Joe De Santis

   Herman Schmidt

9. 

   Joyce Mackenzie

   Katherine Garrison Geary

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-09-09

Humphrey Bogart ("Ed") is superb in this tale of a newspaper editor whose paper is being sold by it's owners. With all looking for their next job, he must try to galvanise his team into an investigation of local mafia kingpin "Rienzi" after one of their number is killed. Occasionally cluttered by a rather clumsy romance (his relationship with soon to be remarried ex-wife "Nora" (Kim Hunter)), this film really focusses on just how newspapers were run in post war USA: gritty, determined and authentic journalism competing with organised crime, personal and family interests (some benign, some less...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$2,250,000.00

Keywords

• new york city
• newspaper
• gangster
• journalism
• press
• film noir
• newspaper editor
• editor