A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.
Joe Downing
- Jerry - Henchman
- (as Joseph Downing)
Charles Cane
- Insp. Brody
- (scenes deleted)
Connie Russell
- Singer
- (scenes deleted)
William 'Billy' Benedict
- Copyboy Wanting Paper
- (uncredited)
Gertrude Bennett
- Newspaper Woman
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe opening scene shows a newspaper headline reading "Whole City Out to Welcome A.E.F." The AEF was The American Expeditionary Forces, the name given to the American military forces sent to fight alongside French and British troops in Europe.
- GoofsIn Bruce's new newspaper office, circa 1919, Croney is wearing a dress with a full zipper up the back. That style would not come into use until twenty years later, as it was considered "vulgar" for a woman to wear a dress that could come off so easily.
- Quotes
Merrill Lambert: Anything can be bought for dough!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015)
Featured review
Perfect display of America's transformation to gritty tabloid newspapers during the early 20th century.
This movie was a great reinactment of how newspapers changed their formats from pure journalism to sensationalism just after World War I. Edward G. Robinson, in one of his best unknown roles, starts his own N.Y. tabloid by becoming partners with a gangster who finances everything. The paper crusades against the underworld and soon enough the unholy partners are at conflict. A superp film that gives a better insight of the early newspaper business than "Citizen Kane"(Not saying its better than the Orsen Welles classic).Definatly a high recomendation; insight, drama, love, and guns.
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- brliqq
- May 18, 2002
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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