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Crime reporter Mike Reese (Dan Duryea) has a nose for news and an eager hand under the table in return for spinning the truth in favor of moneyed perps. But after he tries to cash in on a story involving a maid accused of a society murder, Reese ultimately finds the courage to reveal the truth and make amends for his tainted past. One of this noirish film's lines of dialogue refers to ancestral witch burnings. Intentionally or not, the line underscores the imminent blacklisting of The Underworld Story's costar Howard da Silva plus the director and the screenwriter. The intriguing story is by Craig Rice, the famed female mystery writer of the 1940s and '50s who was the cover-story subject of Time's January 28, 1946 issue.
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- G
- Originally Released
- 1950
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Dan Duryea;Herbert Marshall;Gale Storm;Howard Da Silva;Michael O'Shea;Mary Anderson;Gar Moore;Melville Cooper;Frieda Inescort;Art Baker
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.