Deadline U.S.A. (1952)

DEADLINE U.S.A.  (1952)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Richard Brooks
    Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter,
    Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart,
    Martin Gabel, Audrey Christie, Jim Backus
Humphrey Bogart plays the crusading editor of a big-city daily called The Day, and he's got a couple of pressing problems. One is a big story  his reporters are working on, an investigative piece that could bring down the criminal empire of a gangster played with humorless menace by Martin Gabel. The other is that the paper is about to be sold to a rival publisher whose plan is to eliminate the competition by shutting it down. It's a briskly told story and a passionate tribute to the imperfect but hard-working men and women of the fourth estate. Every newspaper drama that's come along since owes at least a passing nod to this one. And if you've never come across a case of death by printing press, that happens in this movie, too.