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Run Time: 1h 31m.

IMDb: 7.0 / 10.

Genre: film-noir movies | drama movies | crime movies

Release year: 1950.

Story: The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.

Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true, then elbows his way into the editorship of the local paper in a small town where, opportunely, a sensational murder case threatens to destroy the family of newspaper magnate E.J. Stanton. When a black servant is made the patsy for this killing, Reese helps himself by helping her...but proves a dangerous ally.

Reporter Mike Reese of The Times-Gazette, a tabloid, is not only fired as the fall guy for writing the story that led to the murder of Turk Meyers who was about to testify against mob boss Carl Durham, Turk testifying unknown to the public until the story, that hit against Turk which also injured DA Ralph Munsey, but is also blacklisted among the big city newspapers. Sensing an opportunity to get back into the newspaper game on his own terms, Mike decides to buy half interest as Editor in The Sentinel, a community newspaper in blue-blooded suburban Lakeville, the paper recently acquired by Publisher Cathy Harris following the death of the previous owner, her father Winston Harris. Although Cathy appreciates the capital for the debt ridden paper, Mikes money which she requires to keep the paper operating, she ends up not appreciating Mikes cutthroat sense of doing whatever required for the paper to make money, especially as she knows the paper, focusing on local human interest stories, cant compete with the big city papers for hard hitting stories. What Cathy doesnt know is that Mikes agenda is to make money for himself, he striking shady deals behind the scenes about which she doesnt know. When a friend of Cathys, Diane Stanton, the wife of Carl Stanton who in turn is the son of E.J. Stanton, a big city newspaper publisher himself of among others The Journal-News, is found dead in the woods in what looks to be suspicious circumstances, Cathy, after recovering from the initial grief, approaches the issue as another human interest story, while Mike sees it as a crime story off of which he and the newspaper can make money, especially when circumstantial evidence points to Dianes black maid and friend, Molly Rankin, as the possible murderer, Mike manipulating the situation toward that monetary end goal regardless of Mollys guilt or innocence and regardless of what effect his actions have on Molly. Mikes view and by association his professional antagonism with Cathy may change when both Munsey and Durham become enmeshed within the story, and Mikes life in the process is in jeopardy.

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Dan Duryea
Mike Reese

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