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Scandal Sheet

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Editor Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) presides over a trashy but financially successful tabloid newspaper in New York City. With his hotshot crime reporter, Steve McCleary (John Derek), and feature writer, Julie Allison (Donna Reed), Chapman attends a Lonely Hearts Club publicity stunt sponsored by the paper, where he's shocked to run into Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), the wife he abandoned two decades before. Their argument takes a violent turn that might ruin everything Chapman has.
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Terry Staunton Radio Times 09/06/2024
3/5
The movie makes astute observations about the ever-changing face of news media during the energetic heyday of print journalism. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Seanax.com 12/05/2009
... directed by Phil Karlson with a suitably sleazy atmosphere of journalistic cynicism. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 10/30/2009
As directed by "B" level film noir expert Phil Karlson, Scandal Sheet is really quite good. Go to Full Review
Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television 08/09/2007
Vividly told thriller. Go to Full Review
Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies 12/06/2005
4.5/5
Its only flaw is a mildy silly plot contrivance that allows the stunning finale, but other than that it's just about perfect. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 02/16/2005
B+
Hard-hitting film noir thriller. Go to Full Review
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Melvin L Feb 19 Oh, I already saw this. Totally forgettable See more John K 08/11/2024 A brilliant movie either great acting and great storyline , I’d recommend this big time See more nick s 04/07/2024 Good production, nicely acted with good camera work. See more Daniel E 11/06/2023 One must consider it for what it is. It's a pretty good film noir appropriate to its time. I tend to measure these pieces against The Maltese Falcon and of course it falls short of that mark in every category. See more Martin B 03/28/2022 Old drunk and former reporter calls Donna Reeds character and says he has the story of his career and will give it to her. She brings the ace reporter in on it for some inexplicable reason who blows it off and it dies. It makes no sense the Donna Reeds character brought anyone in on it and it makes no sense she would not have followed up on her own with her friend no matter what her fellow reporter said. It makes no sense the ace reporter starved for leads would blow anything off that has a chance to bare fruit. That's typical of the things that go on in the movie that make no sense other then to advance the story line. Plus is plays negative stereotypes of newspapers and reporters that in the end is more cliche then a good plot. That said the cast is great lead by Crawford. It's just a train wreck you can't look away from. See more paul d @PaulusLoZebra 02/14/2022 Phil Karlson's Scandal Sheet is a taut crime thriller based on newspaper reporters who alternate sensational, sleazy stories with very good investigative journalism. Broderick Crawford is outstanding as the complex, impulsive, manipulative and very successful editor. John Derek is very good as a star reporter, and Donna Reed is even better as the film's moral compass. Derek and Reed make an engaging, intelligent couple, entirely believable in these roles. The supporting cast is also very good. There are some film noir elements, but this very good movie could have been great, possibly even outstanding, had it been shot with more dramatic and stylized cinematography. The score works very well. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Editor Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) presides over a trashy but financially successful tabloid newspaper in New York City. With his hotshot crime reporter, Steve McCleary (John Derek), and feature writer, Julie Allison (Donna Reed), Chapman attends a Lonely Hearts Club publicity stunt sponsored by the paper, where he's shocked to run into Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), the wife he abandoned two decades before. Their argument takes a violent turn that might ruin everything Chapman has.
Director
Phil Karlson
Producer
Edward Small
Screenwriter
Samuel Fuller, Eugene Ling, James Poe, Ted Sherdeman
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
Production Co
Edward Small Productions, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 16, 1952, Wide
Release Date (DVD)
Oct 27, 2009
Runtime
1h 22m
Sound Mix
Mono
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