DEADLINE U.S.A.
This is one of the most enjoyable nespaper films ever made, maybe because the writer-director Richard Brooks used to be a newspaperman. Humphrey Bogart (picuted) is a beleaguered but scrupulous editor and Ethel Barrymore is his publisher. The rapport between these two should have kept Lauren Bacall awake nights.
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