Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)

NR03/14/1952Crime, Drama1h 27m
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20th Century-Fox savagely turns the spotlight of truth on revenge killings that shocked a nation !

Overview

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Top Billed Cast

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    Humphrey Bogart

    Ed Hutcheson

  2. Cast 1

    Ethel Barrymore

    Margaret Garrison

  3. Cast 1

    Kim Hunter

    Nora Hutcheson

  4. Cast 1

    Ed Begley

    Frank Allen

  5. Cast 1

    Warren Stevens

    George Burrows

  6. Cast 1

    Paul Stewart

    Harry Thompson

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    Martin Gabel

    Tomas Rienzi

  8. Cast 1

    Joe De Santis

    Herman Schmidt

  9. Cast 1

    Joyce Mackenzie

    Katherine Garrison Geary

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...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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