The Underworld Story
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
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.
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Dan Duryea · Herbert Marshall · Gale Storm · Howard Da Silva · Michael O'Shea · Mary Anderson · Gar Moore · Melville Cooper · Frieda Inescort · Art Baker · Harry Shannon · Alan Hale Jr. · Stephen Dunne · Roland Winters · Sue England
Soundtrack David Rose
Screenplay Cy Endfield · Henry Blankfort · Craig Rice
Cinematography Stanley Cortez
Original title The Underworld Story
7.0
142 votes (FilmAffinity)
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