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Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)

Crime | 87 minutes
3,32 31 votes

Genre: Crime

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Richard Brooks

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore and Kim Hunter

IMDb score: 7,2 (4.750)

Releasedate: 14 March 1952

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Deadline - U.S.A. plot

"20th Century-Fox savagely turns the spotlight of truth on revenge killings that shocked a nation !"

Ed Hutcheson, a hard-hitting newspaper editor, discovers that the heirs who own the paper are selling the paper to a rival. At first, he sees his unemployment as an opportunity to win back his wife Nora. But when a reporter is beaten up and the trail leads to a mobster, he decides to hang the mobster for a murder he once committed during the three days left in the newspaper.

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Ed Hutcheson

Margaret Garrison

Nora Hutcheson

Frank Allen

George Burrows

Harry Thompson

Tomas Rienzi

Herman Schmidt

Katherine Garrison Geary

Mrs. Willebrandt

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Movsin

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Humphrey Bogart: Give him the "best lines" and he's unique and inimitable, especially when he's championing a good cause, like saving a serious, honest, and informative newspaper. That such a thing happens by unmasking a criminal seems a bit absurd to me, but then again, fitting for the glory that's ascribed to the press in such films. How many films have we seen where a reporter solves a murder case?

Besides Bogart, Ethel Barrymore also exudes class in this slightly above-average crime film from the fifties.

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mrklm

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Bogart is perfectly cast as the experienced and shrewd editor-in-chief of "The Day," a daily newspaper that the family of its recently deceased founder wants to sell. However, Bogart and his staff anticipate that the newspaper will then fall into the hands of gangster boss Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gabel), who will mercilessly destroy the paper—and with it, 1,500 jobs. Ethel Barrymore lends the film extra stature as the widow who questions her decision, and Kim Hunter appears here in her first film role since "A Streetcar Named Desire," for which she won an Oscar. This could have been an exciting, even thrilling, combination of journalism, action, and crime, but the cinematography by Richard Brooks—who would later direct such classics as "Elmer Gantry" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"—is static and unimaginative, preventing the film from capitalizing on the screenplay's strengths.

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Bogart is in top form, as he often is when he's allowed to spew sharp chunks of dialogue while resolutely alternating between the phone and the liquor bottle. A classic, busy, smoke-filled newspaper office where the women are just as hard-boiled as the men, a plot with various issues in the air (the newspaper to sell, the ex to win back, and the gangster boss to put behind bars), and a noble message about the free press, all wrapped up in a tight package that we can safely call noirish (because how many scenes do we see between the early dawn and the moment the bars open?). Kim Hunter doesn't get much to do, and Ethel Barrymore even less, but the latter does have a lot of chemistry with Bogart (he: "Will you marry me?", she: "You're too old."). Great Dutch title: Bloed op het voorpagina!

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