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EXPLOITATION PICTURE
An outstanding selection of stills, some of which are pictured aouve, highlights the selling facets that abound in 20th Century-Fox's "Deadline — L.S.A.". The slambang action and suspense, the authenticity that surrounds the newspaper background for the story, the Academy Award winning stars Humphrey Bogart and Kim Hunter — all are given eye-arresting shots for a powerful display factor.
DEADLINE — U. S. A.
Hollywood has taken a great deal of censure, especially from indignant newspaper people, for its depiction of members of the rourth Estate. Many have called it responsible for the average layman's impression of the newspaper office and its personnel ;is a bunch of gin-swigging, brim-up, "follow-that-cab" upstarts who yell at their ulcerous editor and are continually fired and rehired. I ndoubtedly, the movie-makers must share the blame for this canard, but no more so than other dream merchants. Novelists, playwrights (Ben Hecht's stage play, "Front Page'*, was the Big bertha), even newspaper people themselves, have chosen tin?colorful characterization as the epitomy of the member of the press. So much so, that the color has been drained and only the caricature remains.
It is really news, then, that a movie giving an honest account of the working press — its dignity, it technicalities and its
responsibility to the people— is presented by 2()th Century-Fox. I nder the direction of former newspaperman Richard Brooks, who worked from his own screenplay, producer Sol C. Siegel has presented an authentic drama of a newspaper editor s battle against corruption in '■Deadline — I .S.A.".
The sterling cast, headed by Humphrey Rogart. makes the story crackle. Rogart is seen as the editor who follows his credo of courage and public responsibility even (hough he knows his newspaper is about to be sold and his life is threatened. Kim Hunter adds another laurel to her series of dramatic accomplishments as the wife who could not share a newspaper as her rival, and Ethel Rarrymore, as the paper's publisher who is stymied by her family's selfish interest, gives her usual solid characterization as the head of a supporting cast that lists no less than 43 individual credit;-.