Scandal Sheet

1952

1h 22m

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6.9/10

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Thriller

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

Directors

Phil Karlson

Writers

Eugene Ling(screenplay by)

James Poe(screenplay by)

Samuel Fuller(novel by)

Stars

Broderick Crawford

Donna Reed

John Derek

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Top cast

Mark Chapman

Julie Allison

Steve McCleary

Charlotte Grant

Charlie Barnes

Biddle

Lieutenant Davis

Elroy Hacker

Frank Madison

Bailey (uncredited)

Neighbor (uncredited)

Shirley Ballard

Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Don Beddoe

Pete (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

Newspaperman (uncredited)

Jack Perrin

NY Express Board Member (uncredited)

Blackie Whiteford

Barfly (uncredited)

Dick Gordon

Stockholder (uncredited)

Herschel Graham

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Directors

Phil Karlson

Writers

Eugene Ling(screenplay by)

James Poe(screenplay by)

Samuel Fuller(novel by)

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Phil Carlson does a really good job keeping this thriller going. Not because it is particularly outstanding, but because we know who killed the wife of "New York Express" managing editor "Chapman" (Broderick Crawford), and I still found myself staying interested in the investigation from his best journalist "McCleary" (John Derek). Can he track down the culprit with precious little to go on? It's all the more fitting because the once serious newspaper both work for has become a bit of a scandal sheet - so digging up dirt and piecing together clues has become their meat and potatoes. Derek, and his disgruntled journalist girlfriend Donna Reed ("Julie") prove to be quite a potent partnership in the search for the truth, and Crawford is on fine form as the bullish newspaper man. The dialogue is quickly delivered and the pace of the film offers a realistic sense of life at a newspaper and on a murder probe. The ending has some dignity to it too - and I almost wished the killer had got away with it!

Geronimo196709 Sep, 2022