Park Row (1952)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Writer:

Samuel Fuller (writer)

Release Date:

12 August 1952 (USA)

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...

Cast

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heinie Conklin	...	Pedestrian (uncredited)
Jean Del Val	...	Mr. Dessard (uncredited)
Monk Eastman	...	(uncredited)
Charles Horvath	...	Monk Rogers (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe	...	Policeman (uncredited)
'Snub' Pollard	...	Barfly (uncredited)
Stanley Price	...	George Taylor (uncredited)
Max Wagner	...	Man passing bogus receipts (uncredited)

Directed by
Samuel Fuller

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Samuel Fuller		writer

Produced by
Samuel Fuller	....	producer

Original Music by
Paul Dunlap

Cinematography by
John L. Russell		(as Jack Russell)

Film Editing by
Philip Cahn

Production Design by
Theobold Holsopple

Set Decoration by
Edward R. Robinson		(as Ray Robinson)

Makeup Department
Hazel Keats	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Sherman A. Harris	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Joseph Depew	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Earl Crain Sr.	....	sound engineer

Special Effects by
Roscoe Cline	....	special effects (as Roscoe S. Cline)

Camera and Electrical Department
Enzo A. Martinelli	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jack E. Miller	....	wardrobe (as Jack Miller)

Other crew
Stanley Price	....	dialogue director

Production Companies

• Samuel Fuller Productions

Distributors

• United Artists (1952) (USA) (theatrical)

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

German | English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Samuel Fuller Productions

Trivia:

Shot in 14 days.

Quotes:

Phineas Mitchell: The press is good or evil according to the character of those who direct it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV)

Great film but Unknown until Recently

Enjoyed this great newspaper story which took about three months to produce for a budget of about Three-Hundred & Fifty Thousand Dollars by Samuel Fuller the Director and Producer. Fuller was able to give a fifty year history of the newspaper business within this very film and it deals with two main characters, Phineas Mitchell, (Gene Evans) who decides to create a newspaper called the "Globe" with a group of other newspapermen who need work and they all get together to make this possible. The other person in this film is a woman named Charity Hackett, (Mary Welch) who is the editor of the "Star" which is a very established newspaper and they are a powerful voice in New York City on Park Row. The Globe's front page headline is about a man who jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge which is a leap of 120 feet into the East River. The Globe begins to over power The Star and Charity Hackett begins to get very upset because she realizes that her paper needs a complete change in is obtaining good news stories and things of interest for the public. The Globe was able to get an inventor who created the Linotype Machine for printing and they also started to raise funds for the land in which the Statue of Liberty would be built on. This is a great film and whenever you get a chance, don't miss this film.