Deadline – U.S.A.

Deadline – U.S.A. is a 1952 crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore and Kim Hunter. A crusading newspaper editor fights a gangster. The newspaper used as background on the film, called The Day is loosely based upon the old New York newspaper New York Sun, which closed in 1950. The original Sun newspaper was edited by Benjamin Day, making the 1952 film's newspaper name a play on words.

This hard-hitting film has film noir elements and is generally considered one of the best films about the newspaper business. The scenes of the printing room was shot at the New York Daily News building.

Plot

Ed Hutcheson is the crusading managing editor of a large metropolitan newspaper called The Day. He is steadfastly loyal to publisher Margaret Garrison, the widow of the paper's founder, but Mrs. Garrison is on the verge of selling the newspaper to interests who plan to permanently cease its operation.

Hutcheson has other concerns, including that his estranged wife Nora is about to remarry. He also puts his reporters to work on the murder of a young woman and the involvement of racketeer Tomas Rienzi, which could turn out to be a circulation builder that keeps the paper in business or else the last big story it ever covers.

Cast

• Humphrey Bogart as Ed Hutcheson
• Ethel Barrymore as Margaret Garrison
• Kim Hunter as Nora Hutcheson
• Ed Begley as Frank Allen
• Warren Stevens as George Burrows
• Paul Stewart as Harry Thompson
• Martin Gabel as Tomas Rienzi
• Joe De Santis as Herman Schmidt
• Joyce Mackenzie as Katherine Garrison Geary
• Audrey Christie as Mrs. Willebrandt
• Fay Baker as Alice Garrison Courtney
• Jim Backus as Jim Cleary

External links

• Deadline – U.S.A. at the TCM Movie Database
• Deadline – U.S.A. at the Internet Movie Database