The Night Stalker (1971), Man of the Century (1999), Page One: Inside The New York Times (2011), My Sister Eileen (1955), The Murder Man (1935), The Divorcee (1930), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Next Time We Love (1935) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Newspaper Reporter movies.
Storyline: After several high-profile newspapers fire him for his difficult attitude, investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) finds a job following the police beat for a small Las Vegas publication. When Carl discovers a series of dead showgirls drained of blood with bite marks on their necks, the police hesitate to take the case any further, and his boss (Simon Oakland) wants nothing to do with the story, leading Carl to believe there may be a real vampire prowling the city streets.
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, district attorney, boss, showgirl, sheriff, chilling, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny Twennies, a newspaper columnist in present-day New York, is a jauntily cheerful, very friendly, totally honest and upstanding young man who happens to be completely oblivious to any technological or social changes in the past 70 years. He routinely uses telegrams, a manual typewriter, and a manual toaster, and to the pleasure and despair of his girlfriend conducts his personal life in correspondingly anachronistic style. One day he's threatened by criminals who want to plant a false news story. But they've never met anyone like him before...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, girlfriend, criminal, artist, editor, quirky, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the most tumultuous time for media in generations, filmmaker Andrew Rossi gains unprecedented access to the newsroom at The New York Times. For a year, he follows journalists on the paper's Media Desk, a department created to cover the transformation of the media industry. Through this prism, a complex view emerges of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity, especially at the Times itself.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: blogger, newspaper reporter, editor, writer, engaging, tense, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as it is!), but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she, (a "spinsterish old-maid writer") and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: aspiring actress, aspiring writer, magazine editor, newspaper reporter, cheeky, amusing, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, gossip columnist, police officer, business partner, father, editor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York 'in-crowd'. Jerry's decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Distraught Paul gets drunk and wrecks his car, disfiguring young Dorothy's face in the process. Out of pity, Paul marries Dorothy. Years later, the apparent perfect marriage of Ted and Jerry falls apart from infidelity on both sides. Inwardly unhappy, popular Jerry lives a party life while Ted sinks into a life of alcoholism. Jerry then runs into Paul, who still loves her. After spending time together with Jerry, Paul plans to divorce Dorothy. When Jerry sees Dorothy again, she has second thoughts about where her life is heading.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: socialite, newspaper reporter, housewife, alcoholic, old flame, husband, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1950 on San Pedro Island in the American Pacific Northwest. Commercial fisher Carl Heine Jr.'s dead body is pulled out of the water in a fishing net by his crew, he who died of head trauma. Kazuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. Carl and Kazuo were once friends, had known each other since childhood, but WWII has placed a strain on any sort of relationship between the ethic Japanese and Caucasian populations of the area, the Japanese population which was and is still substantial on the island. Carl had motive regarding a land dispute between the two families, land which Carl's mother eventually sold from under the Miyamotos and which Carl had just repurchased. Evidence also points to Kazuo being on the water with Carl probably sometime during his last voyage, evidence which Kazuo knew would put him in a bad light, adding on top of being Japanese, and thus decided not to disclose to the investigating sheriff at the time he was questioned. Kazuo and his wife Hatsue's fear come ...
Plot Keywords: japanese-american, fisherman, newspaper reporter, wife, love interest, judge, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In New York, the rookie newsman Christopher "Chris" Tyler dreams on becoming a famous journalist. When his girlfriend Cicely spends a couple of days with him, they decide to get married and Cicely leaves college. Chris's best friend Tommy Abbott is his best man and becomes a family's friend. Chris has his great chance when his editor Frank Carteret sends him to Rome assigned as a foreign correspondent. Cicely stays in New York with Tommy and does not tell to Chris that she is pregnant. When she delivers the baby Kit, Chris celebrates and loses a big scoop and his boss fires him. Chris falls in disgrace and the couple has economic difficulties; however Tommy lends money to Cicely and offers an opportunity on the stage as an actress. Cicely is hired and becomes successful and Chris is depressed with the situation. Cicely seeks out Frank Carteret and explains the situation, and he offers a job opportunity to Chris in Russia. He accepts the job but Cicely stays in New York with their son. Along the years, their marriage ends with the distance, but they are still in love with each other.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, aspiring actress, friend, producer, melodramatic, somber, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A. McGee has exposed her as former burlesque queen Rosie O'Grady. To get her own back she announces that Sam is in fact her real suitor. He in turn has a song about Rosie published and something of an Irish brawl develops via his paper and her stage show.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, duke, fiancé, fiancée, spirited, engaging, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreak havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: jesse james, sheriff, newspaper reporter, look-alike, gambler, love interest, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. The only trouble is that he usually has the wrong information and the paper must print a retraction. But this time he thinks that he is on the right track. On patrol with his cop friends, they find the body of millionaire Edward Abbott in a cheap boarding house. It could be suicide or murder and Matt goes with murder, but the inquest goes with suicide. So Matt is out of a job, but in love with Jane and goes with his hunches - which put him in the middle of more killings.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: mistress, daughter, chauffeur, tycoon, newspaper reporter, editor, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the Texas cattle trails to Kansas are blocked, cattle buyer Gene Autry (Gene Autry) goes to Texas to investigate. There, he finds his friend, land-agent "Buckeye" Buttram (Pat Buttram)and pretty Gay Kendall (Anne James, a newspaper reporter, siding with the homesteaders in a rancher-settlers dispute instigated by speculator Steve Ruttledge (Leonard Penn), in a land-grab scheme in which he will benefit when the railroad is built across the land he hopes to control.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: gene autry, real estate agent, newspaper reporter, homesteader, investor, rancher, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image - and increase its revenues - by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
Plot Keywords: attendant, manager, newspaper reporter, actress, mayor, publicist, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Christian woman (Delana Michaels) wants a newspaper man (Greg Wynne) to publish a story about a One World Foundation being set up whose only goal is to control the world. She wants him to warn people that this is coming and explain how it ties into the end times spoken about in the Bible. The newsman is opposed to such an idea until he sees the woman being pursued by the Foundation. As this adventure unfolds, the newspaper man begins to realize that what the woman is saying could be true. This evangelistic, classic end times film presents the truth about Jesus Christ and has interesting insight into what might be coming in the last days.
Plot Keywords: christian, newspaper reporter, military officer, intruder, plumber, computer expert, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While staying at a cabin in the woods for a weekend, three teenagers discover that their neighbor is 'feeding' guests to her zombie family. In short order, the battle is on as the kids fight to save themselves and their family.
Plot Keywords: librarian, best friend, newspaper reporter, boyfriend, dead person, chief of police, ex-cia agent ...
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