![]() Also one of his reporters is savagely beaten when he tries to investigate local mobster Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gabel), and Ed wants to get justice. This isn’t Ed’s only stress – he’s still desperately in love with his ex-wife Nora (Kim Hunter), who is about to get re-married to another man. Ed’s surrogate mother and publisher Margaret (Ethel Barrymore) is attempting to halt the sale, but her two daughters hold the majority votes. ![]() Humphrey Bogart stars as Ed, the managing editor of a major metropolitan daily newspaper called “The Day.” It’s in the process of being sold off to a bigger company, which plans to erase it from existence – less competition for their papers, you see. And “Deadline – U.S.A.”, despite having that heinous title, is a great one. Because of my former career, I unsurprisingly have a major soft-spot for any newspaper movie. This despite my regular breaking of the rules of grammar for emphasis, overuse of adverbs and tendency to use colorful language on this Odyssey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter
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