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Humphrey Bogart
Ed Hutcheson
Ethel Barrymore
Margaret Garrison
Kim Hunter
Nora Hutcheson
Ed Begley
Frank Allen
Warren Stevens
George Burrows
Paul Stewart
Harry Thompson
Martin Gabel
Tomas Rienzi
Joe De Santis
Herman Schmidt
Joyce Mackenzie
Katherine Garrison Geary
Audrey Christie
Mrs. Willebrandt
Fay Baker
Alice Garrison Courtney
Jim Backus
Jim Cleary
Parley Baer
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Bill Baldwin
Man Asking for Ed Hutcheson (uncredited)
Willis Bouchey
Henry (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
City Editor of The Standard (uncredited)
Lawrence Dobkin
Larry Hansen (uncredited)
John Doucette
Hal (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Robert Foulk
Rienzi's Associate (uncredited)
Raymond Greenleaf
Lawrence White (uncredited)
Dabbs Greer
Reporter (uncredited)
Thomas Browne Henry
Fenway (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Reporter (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Senator (uncredited)
Kasia Orzazewski
Mrs. Schmidt (uncredited)
Fay Roope
Judge (uncredited)
Joe Sawyer
Whitey Franks (uncredited)
Phillip Terry
Lewis Schaefer (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Senator (uncredited)
Marjorie Holliday
James Dean
Press Boy (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Sep 09 2022

Humphrey Bogart ("Ed") is superb in this tale of a newspaper editor whose paper is being sold by it's owners. With all looking for their next job, he must try to galvanise his team into an investigation of local mafia kingpin "Rienzi" after one of their number is killed. Occasionally cluttered by a rather clumsy romance (his relationship with soon to be remarried ex-wife "Nora" (Kim Hunter)), this film really focusses on just how newspapers were run in post war USA: gritty, determined and authentic journalism competing with organised crime, personal and family interests (some benign, some less ...