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Plot. When big-city newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) writes and publishes a story (after breaking his promise to withhold it) that results in the murder of a state's witness against a local gang lord, he loses his job.
Summaries. The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces. Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under ...
Dan Duryea stars as Mike Reese, a big-city newspaperman who is black-balled out of town after publishing a story that helps a mobster rub out an informant. Reese settles in the nearby small town of Lakewood, where he buys a half interest in a newspaper owned by Cathy Harris (Gale Storm).
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Cy Endfield
- 1950-07-26
The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva and Michael O'Shea. Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted.
- Cy Endfield
Directed by Cy Endfield. Fighting Reporter Exposes Corruption. A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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- Filmcraft Productions
- Cy Endfield
Brief Synopsis. A corrupt newspaperman, blacklisted from his big-city paper, becomes involved with a murder case for a small town paper.
Opportunistic newspaper reporter Dan Duryea, recently fired due to his excesses, invests in a small, private paper and sets out to raise its prospects by ginning up the story of a young, black housekeeper accused of her employer's murder.