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Director:
Samuel Fuller
Writer:
Samuel Fuller (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 August 1952 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Tagline:
Street of rogues... reporters... and romance!
Plot:
In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is... more | add synopsis
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An overlooked classic more (14 total)

Cast

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Gene Evans ... Phineas Mitchell
Mary Welch ... Charity Hackett
Bela Kovacs ... Ottmar Mergenthaler
Herbert Heyes ... Josiah Davenport
Tina Pine ... Jenny O'Rourke
George O'Hanlon ... Steve Brodie
J.M. Kerrigan ... Dan O'Rourke
Forrest Taylor ... Charles A. Leach
Don Orlando ... Mr. Angelo
Neyle Morrow ... Thomas Guest
Dick Elliott ... Jeff Hudson
Stuart Randall ... Mr. Spiro
Dee Pollock ... Rusty
Hal K. Dawson ... Mr. Wiley
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Additional Details

Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
German | English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Shot in 14 days. more
Quotes:
Phineas Mitchell: The press is good or evil according to the character of those who direct it. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV) more

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An overlooked classic, 15 July 2002

One of my favorites from Samuel Fuller; a frenzied, kinetic melodrama about journalism in the late 1800's. Although the film is laughably unrealistic at times in it's portrayal of two major newspapers competing for more readers, this is no hindrance to one's enjoyment of the film.

Never did Fuller create a film of such sheer energy and nostalgia. The film's tracking shots and frenetically-edited montages seem to get the most attention, but there are also some great monologues and magnificent performances, particularly from Mary Welch as the head of the "evil" newspaper, The Star, and Gene Evans as the leader of their opposing newspaper, The Globe.

The film has it's moments of campiness, but overall it's one of cinema's overlooked classics.

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