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|    Scandal Sheet (US) 1952    |
|    29 Mar 21 17:57:39    |
      From: wlah...@gmail.com              Hey,              Hollywood – and Sam Fuller – love a newspaper story whether it sings the       praises of the First Amendment or excoriates the exploitive attempts to feed       on the base interests of the hoi polloi. In this film, it's the story of a       gruff and aggressive        editor who has taken over the once staid and money-losing New York Express and       turned it into a successful scandal sheet that focuses on sex and murder and       the like. This editor – at a Lonely Hearts mixer sponsored by the newspaper       – has his buried        past resurrect itself in front of his face and his future is quickly obscured       by clouds. Those clouds are broken by a murder and the editor is soon       subjected to the same scrutiny he demands for low-class murders.              Nice touch at the end of a finely paced, finely produced film.              This is my favorite Phil Karlson-directed film. It's from a script by Eugene       Ling, James Poe, and Ted Sherdman based on a novel by Samuel Fuller.       Cinematography by Burnett Guffey and music by George Duning. Starring       Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John        Derek, and Rosemary DeCamp, among others.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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