Humphrey Bogart

Ethel Barrymore

Kim Hunter

Ed Begley

Warren Stevens

Paul Stewart

Martin Gabel

Joe De Santis

Joyce Mackenzie

Audrey Christie

Fay Baker

Jim Backus

Parley Baer

Bill Baldwin

Willis Bouchey

Joseph Crehan

Lawrence Dobkin

John Doucette

Bess Flowers

Robert Foulk

Raymond Greenleaf

Dabbs Greer

Thomas Browne Henry

Norman Leavitt

Paul Maxey

Kasia Orzazewski

Fay Roope

Joe Sawyer

Phillip Terry

Frank Wilcox

Marjorie Holliday

James Dean

Lovyss Bradley

Ralph Brooks

Dick Cherney

William Forrest

Everett Glass

Harry Harvey

Selmer Jackson

Nolan Leary

Rory Mallinson

Ann McCrea

Joseph Mell

Forbes Murray

Howard Negley

Richard Neill

Emerson Treacy

Jesse White

Mack Williams

Barton Yarborough

Carleton Young

Cyril J. Mockridge

William B. Murphy

Richard Brooks

Sol C. Siegel

Milton Krasner

Sol Kaplan

Edward B. Powell

Bernard Mayers

Joe Connors

Lionel Newman

Kay Thackery

Ray Kellogg

Lyle R. Wheeler

Buddy Longworth

George Patrick

Richard Maybery

Harry M. Leonard

Thomas Little

Charles LeMaire

E. Clayton Ward

Ben Nye

Walter M. Scott

Elois Jenssen

Crime

Drama

Deadline - U.S.A.

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

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 so), corruption and physical danger - all to deliver the daily news to the breakfast tables of millions of New Yorkers. Ethel Barrymore adds some class as the newspaper's proprietress who begins to doubt the wisdom of the sale as she is also drawn into the almost visceral nature of this investigation into a man who uses threats and lawyers to remain one step ahead of the authorities. It packs quite a punch for almost all of it's 90 minutes, and really does show off the star and the writing at their best.

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