Storyline

Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true, then elbows his way into the editorship of the local paper in a small town where, opportunely, a sensational murder case threatens to destroy the family of newspaper magnate E.J. Stanton. When a black servant is made the patsy for this killing, Reese helps himself by helping her...but proves a dangerous ally.—Rod Crawford

Plot Keywords

journalist, publisher, newspaper owner, gangster, daughter-in-law, murderer, brooding, intense, uneasy, intricate, small town, new england, office, suburbia, city, city hall, journalism, ethics, gangsters, murder, redemption, reputation, discovery, quest, transformation, 1950s

Short Review

It has a kind of Jacobean wildness to its plot twists, and some acting that borders on the hysterical.

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