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oOoBarracuda Ever since I heard a year ago that Deadline - U.S.A. was finally getting a DVD release I was thrilled, I set a reminder on my phone and pre-ordered; I couldn't wait to finally watch one of the Bogie films that had eluded me for years. Directed by Richard Brooks in 1952 and starring, along with Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, and Kim Hunter, Deadline - U.S.A. explores the quest an editor and a few reporters embark upon to save their newspaper. One of the more emotionally varied roles of Humphrey Bogart, Deadline - U.S.A. is a pure treat for fans of cinema.Ed Hutcheson (Humphrey Bogart) is a hardened editor who has devoted his life and his happiness to the New York Day, the daily paper that has consumed his life for years. When it is made public that the paper is going to be sold, many reporters flee looking for other work, some stick around trying to finish their current stories. At first, Hutcheson accepts incoming unemployment with trepidatious willfulness, thinking that he will finally be able to have a life and hopefully resume his marriage with his ex-wife, Nora (Kim Hunter). He seeks her out after a night of drinking through his woes over the paper's sale, only to find out that she will be marrying another. When one of his reporters is badly beaten, Hutcheson knows that there is more to a story he was pursuing than initially imagined. Hutcheson commits to uncovering the truth, and his small band of remaining reporters are just as determined. The troupe soon finds out that a gangster that has run the city for years is behind the beating and attempted suppression of Hutcheson and his team. A committed team of crusaders Hutcheson only has three issues left to solve the case and save the paper.Years of waiting for the DVD release of Deadline - U.S.A. was not for naught, as I would rank it among one of Bogart's best roles. He was as much a detective in this film as he was in The Big Sleep. The determination and drive Bogart embodied with this role was phenomenal, and a role that only Bogart could have fulfilled--he completely steals the show. Not only was Bogart just as much of a detective in this role as he is in his famous detective roles, but he was also more gangster. Such a wonderful tightrope walk between physically imposing and intellectually threatening, Bogart proves his acting mastery. The Humphrey Bogart Eyes moment happens when Bogart has dinner with his ex-wife, who he is still trying to convince to come back to him. Nora shares with him her desire to be "enough" for someone. She knows she will never be enough for Hutcheson because he is constantly consumed by the paper. The second time he is pulled away from their dinner to answer an urgent phone call is proof enough for Nora and she leaves the restaurant before he returns from his call. The look Bogart's eyes emote in the moment that he realizes he may have lost the last chance with his one true love is absolute perfection. Anyone that has ever suffered a broken heart knows that this Humphrey Bogart Eyes moment is a perfect illustration of the pain in his heart at that moment.

edwagreen Humphrey Bogart tries to avert The Day, the paper he is head of, from being sold. The film brings out the importance of competition within newspapers as The Day tries to expose the gangster Rienzi, nicely portrayed by Martin Gabel. Had the latter's part be enlarged, Bogart could have easily played that part.Why did Ethel Barrymore, who plays Mrs. Garrison, the widow of the owner of the paper, change her mind about selling the paper. She had two selfish daughters who only saw the gaining of money in the scheme of things.Rienzi is ruthless and will go to any length to keep his crooked enterprises thriving. This includes murdering his mistress when her own brother turns her in to the mob, and then he makes sure to eliminate the brother. Their poor elderly mother defies this gangster and gets the newspaper to print its final edition with her diary being used by the paper.The picture really brings out the tragedy of when a newspaper is sold and the new owner has the intentions of running it to the ground.We have an excellent cast here supporting Bogart. Kim Hunter is effective as his ex-wife, who still loves him. Ed Begley and Audrey Christie, both of whom would appear together 12 years later in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," are appealing as dedicated staff members, as does Jim Backus and others.

thinker1691 The idea of being a real live reporter or for that matter, a newspaper editor never crossed the mind of Humphrey Bogart who plays Ed Hutcheson. Yet when you watch this film, he is so superb, you'd think he's done it all his life. This is the story of ' The Day ' perhaps the finest newspaper on the East coast. It's 1,500 people who daily work for it, produce top notch news stories and none more poignant than it current interest, the life of suspected criminal, Thomas Renzi. A man so powerful, he believes himself untouchable. Although a congressional investigation and a state probe could not prove anything in the way of illegal criminal dealings, few are courageous enough to challenge him. That is until, Renzi's mobsters ambush and nearly kill one George Burrows, (Warren Stevens) an investigative reporter for The Day. That's when Hutcheson and his staff, which includes, editorial Assistant Frank Allen (Ed Begley) decides to scrutinize and put Renzi's life on the front page. The gangster and the editor both have power, but which will win out makes for a tense dramatic movie. Set in the 1950's, this black and white film will inspire many a journalist to set their sights to be as great as the day. ****

sol1218 ***SPOILER ALERT*** Solid newspaper drama that has a two tier storyline involving the hard hitting no nonsense managing editor Ed Hutcheson, Humphrey Bogart, of the big city newspaper "The Day". Hutcheson is involved in a number of crisis in the 87 minute film including his wife Nora, Kim Hunter, leaving him for another man her boss at the advertising agency Lewis Shaefer, Phillip Terry, with his newspaper about to be bought up with it's 1,500 employees.Hutcheson himself is also giving the pink slip and at the same time, with time running out, tries to get the goods on big time mobster Thomas Rienzi, Martin Gable. Rienzi had his estranged girlfriend former fashion model Sally Schmidt, Ann McCrea, murdered as well as have his thugs work over Hutcheson's star reporter George Borrows, Warren Stevens, who was about to break to case wide open. Knowing that there's little or no chance to save his newspaper "The Day" editor Hutcheson takes on a local murder case as the papers last headline story that in the end leads straight to city Mafiso chief Thomas Rienzi. Sally Schmidt, known as Bessie Gardner, had a falling out with her hoodlum boyfriend and was later found floating in the river. Sally had secretly put some $200,000.00 of Rienzi's hot money away in a bank safe deposit box that he was to use in fixing the city and state elections.Given the story Day reporter George Borrows ends up badly beaten by the Rienzi Mob which has Hutcheson go all out to get the mob chief at the expense of his own life and safety. With the help of a number of contacts in the State Boxing Commission Hutcheson gets to smoke out Sally's brother Herman, Joe de Santis,who unwittingly set poor Sally up for a mob hit. Rienzi in an effort to shut Herman up has a number of his hoods impersonate policemen as they kidnap Herman right out of the Day editor room and have him gunned down, and falling to his death on the news printing machines, as he tried to escape.With nothing on Thomas Rienzi Hutcheson is about to close the paper after the last and final edition but it's then when elderly Mrs. Schmidt, Kasia Orzazewski, Sally and Herman's mom shows up at the Day offices with enough evidence, that Sally secretly left her, to put the grinning and feeling secure Thomas Rienzi and his gang away for the rest of their lives.One of Humphrey Bogart's most underrated and forgotten films. "Deadline USA" is by far one, if not, the best motion picture about not only the newspaper business but free speech ever to come out of Hollywood in the last 50 or so years. We see in the film how the news is handled, by trying to ascertain and then confirm it, by a top and respected city daily. it was very sad to see ****SPOILER***that in the end Hutcheson lost his battle to keep "The Day" from going under by it being swallowed up by it's competition the tabloid newspaper "The Standard". Hutchenson getting the big mob boss Thomas Rienzi put out of action and behind bars was more then worth his courageous but losing effort.