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      1959 1h 36m Drama List
      Reviews 44% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A managing editor (Jack Webb), city editor (William Conrad), rewrite woman and copy boy (David Nelson) meet their Los Angeles daily's midnight deadline. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Made for a double feature, the plot wobbles here and there and comes to no consensus. It is generally a bunch of worn out cliches that were dated even by 1959 standards. They must have thought it added relevance to this tepid script. The main actors couldn't act. Webb, in particular, does a poor job. William Conrad just sits, threatens, and mutters cliches. The true acting comes from the women -- Louise Lorimer does a fine job, and Whitney Blake takes her part as far as the script allows. David Nelson and the other neophytes in the newsroom handle their parts well, but it is hard to work when your "bosses" just want to play around and toss worn out banter to each other. The movie does not represent a newsroom, circa 1959. Supposedly, this was based on the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, a large subscription paper at the time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a film for people with memories, or who are curious. The newspaper business is vanishing, but it was a pivotal part of what American life has always been. This film is not the greatest mirror of that time, nor was "Citizen Kane," though they both dealt with aspects of the same subject. But like all the Jack Webb Procedurals (Not just "Dragnet" but "The D.I." and "Pete Kelly's Blues") they were sincere attempts to catalog truths. The cast is a bunch of faces that you will recognize, though not from the Big Screen. And, the surest sign it has got something going for it, The New York Times hated it! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Charming little film that gives a glimpse into what the world of Newspapers was like back when a girl getting lost in the sewers was the "Story of the Year." Like most older films it can be a bit melodramatic and heavy on the self-righteous monologues. Still, it has some fairly amusing lines and a story that is interesting for anyone who cares about the subject matter. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A managing editor (Jack Webb), city editor (William Conrad), rewrite woman and copy boy (David Nelson) meet their Los Angeles daily's midnight deadline.
      Director
      Jack Webb
      Screenwriter
      William Bowers
      Production Co
      Mark VII Ltd.
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 22, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 36m
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