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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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