When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate..
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school newspaper movies where everyone talks at 100 miles per hour and smokes in every single room, you’ll dig this. If you need your protagonists to be likeable, good people, skip it. You will probably hate this if you get annoyed by characters who make terrible life choices just...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Tim Whelan
Alexander Butler
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school newspaper movies where everyone talks at 100 miles per hour and smokes in every single room, you’ll dig this. If you need your protagonists to be likeable, good people, skip it. You will probably hate this if you get annoyed by characters who make terrible life choices just to keep the plot moving. Spencer Tracy plays Steve Gray, and man, he’s a piece of work. He spends half the movie looking like he hasn't slept since the Great Depression. There’s ..."
Lita Chevret
Tim Whelan, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Guy Bolton, John C. Higgins
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