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20th Century-Fox savagely turns the spotlight of truth on revenge killings that shocked a nation !
1952 | 87m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Richard Brooks |
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| Writer: | Richard Brooks |
| Staring: |
| With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 14, 1952 |
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| Director: | Richard Brooks |
| Writer: | Richard Brooks |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | new york city, journalism, newspaper, press, gangster, film noir, newspaper editor, editor |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Humphrey Bogart | Ed Hutcheson |
| Ethel Barrymore | Margaret Garrison |
| Kim Hunter | Nora Hutcheson |
| Ed Begley | Frank Allen |
| Warren Stevens | George Burrows |
| Paul Stewart | Harry Thompson |
| Martin Gabel | Tomas Rienzi |
| Joe De Santis | Herman Schmidt |
| Joyce Mackenzie | Katherine Garrison Geary |
| Audrey Christie | Mrs. Willebrandt |
| Fay Baker | Alice Garrison Courtney |
| Jim Backus | Jim Cleary |
| Parley Baer | Headwaiter (uncredited) |
| Bill Baldwin | Man Asking for Ed Hutcheson (uncredited) |
| Willis Bouchey | Henry (uncredited) |
| Joseph Crehan | City Editor of The Standard (uncredited) |
| Lawrence Dobkin | Larry Hansen (uncredited) |
| John Doucette | Hal (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| Robert Foulk | Rienzi's Associate (uncredited) |
| Raymond Greenleaf | Lawrence White (uncredited) |
| Dabbs Greer | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Thomas Browne Henry | Fenway (uncredited) |
| Norman Leavitt | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Paul Maxey | Senator (uncredited) |
| Kasia Orzazewski | Mrs. Schmidt (uncredited) |
| Fay Roope | Judge (uncredited) |
| Joe Sawyer | Whitey Franks (uncredited) |
| Phillip Terry | Lewis Schaefer (uncredited) |
| Frank Wilcox | Senator (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Holliday | |
| James Dean | Press Boy (uncredited) |
| Lovyss Bradley | Woman (uncredited) |
| Ralph Brooks | Newspaperman (uncredited) |
| Dick Cherney | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) |
| William Forrest | Mr. Greene (uncredited) |
| Robert Foulk | Rienzi Associate (uncredited) |
| Everett Glass | Doctor Emanuel (uncredited) |
| Dabbs Greer | Day Reporter (uncredited) |
| Harry Harvey | Bill (uncredited) |
| Selmer Jackson | Williams (uncredited) |
| Nolan Leary | Court Clerk (uncredited) |
| Rory Mallinson | Rienzi's Associate (uncredited) |
| Ann McCrea | Sally Gardner (uncredited) |
| Joseph Mell | Lugerman (uncredited) |
| Forbes Murray | Newspaperman (uncredited) |
| Howard Negley | Police Sergeant (uncredited) |
| Richard Neill | Newspaperman (uncredited) |
| Emerson Treacy | City Editor (uncredited) |
| Jesse White | Rienzi Associate (uncredited) |
| Mack Williams | Rienzi Associate (uncredited) |
| Barton Yarborough | Male Secretary (uncredited) |
| Carleton Young | Crane (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Milton Krasner | Director of Photography |
| Richard Brooks | Writer, Director |
| William B. Murphy | Editor |
| Kay Thackery | Script Supervisor |
| Edward B. Powell | Orchestrator |
| Charles LeMaire | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| E. Clayton Ward | Sound |
| Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| George Patrick | Art Direction |
| Sol Kaplan | Original Music Composer |
| Joe Connors | Stand In |
| Lionel Newman | Music Director |
| Bernard Mayers | Orchestrator |
| Buddy Longworth | Still Photographer |
| Harry M. Leonard | Sound |
| Richard Maybery | Assistant Director |
| Elois Jenssen | Costume Designer |
| Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
| Lyle R. Wheeler | Art Direction |
| Cyril J. Mockridge | Original Music Composer |
| Ray Kellogg | Visual Effects |
| Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
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| Sol C. Siegel | Producer |
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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 so), corruption and physical danger - all to deliver the daily news to the breakfast tables of millions of New Yorkers. Ethel Barrymore adds some class as the newspaper's proprietress who begins to doubt the wisdom of the sale as she is also drawn into the almost visceral nature of this investigation into a man who uses threats and lawyers to remain one step ahead of the authorities. It packs quite a punch for almost all of it's 90 minutes, and really does show off the star and the writing at their best.