'' is a
1950 movie, shot in
Film Noir style, starring
Dan Duryea .
Howard Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted. This newspaperman Duryea plays is similar in tone (a reporter that does anything for publicity for himself regardless of ethics) to Kirk Douglas in ''
Ace In The Hole ''. This
B-movie was shot in black and white by director
Cy Endfield and cinematographer
Stanley Cortez .
Newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) looses his job at a big paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from and gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm) and she immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again.
