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Post by hi224 on May 23, 2018 2:44:48 GMT
Anyone seen this?.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 23, 2018 2:49:16 GMT
Bogie, huh? Gentleman, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention.
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Post by london777 on May 23, 2018 15:24:50 GMT
Yes, I watched it in March. I posted this in the "Favorite Humphrey Bogart movie" thread: One not so far mentioned, written and directed by Richard Brooks, is Deadline - U.S.A. in which Bogie plays a newspaper editor trying to expose a crime boss before his paper is sold under him. The insights into how a newspaper office works reminded me of a later movie The Paper (1994) directed by Ron Howard. Bogie has some great sardonic lines.
 You are a big disappointment to Spiderwort. Posting about a classic movie in the Film General section.  |
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Post by mikef6 on May 23, 2018 19:19:10 GMT
My review from the weekly "What classics did you see..." thread on the old boards.
Deadline U.S.A. / Richard Brooks (1952). Twentieth Century Fox studio head Daryll Zanuck wanted either Gregory Peck or Richard Widmark to play the high-powered newspaper managing editor Ed Hutcheson against director Brooks’ preference for Humphery Bogart. Even though Bogart had just returned from the location shoot of “The African Queen,” that picture had not yet earned the acclaim that would later come so Bogart’s recent resume didn’t look so hot. But Brooks held out, got what he wanted, and Bogie rules. This fast-talking adventure has more than one deadline approaching. The venerable old newspaper – based on the New York World founded by Joseph Pulitzer – is about to be sold to a competitor who is sure to shut it down. Before that can happen, the investigative reporters have to gather enough solid evidence to print a story that will bring down gangster Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gable). As great as Bogart is, Ethel Barrymore nearly walks away with the movie – at least, the scenes she is in. She plays the widow of the paper’s founder. It is her greedy grown children who are selling out. Kim Hunter plays Hutcheson’s ex-wife. Both Hunter and Bogart picked up Oscars in March 1952 (for 1951), just about the time that “Deadline U.S.A.” was opening. Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, and Paul Stewart all do great work. One last comment about Bogart: in his first scene, he ties a bow tie for us in close-up. About that, the DVD commentator said, “Bogart also demonstrates the proper way to wear a bow tie. It is a fact that no human being in all of recorded history wore the bow tie better than Bogart.” Amen, brother.
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Post by OldAussie on May 23, 2018 21:15:52 GMT
One of my favourite Bogart movies....and that's saying something.
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Post by politicidal on May 23, 2018 22:37:58 GMT
Caught it this week. Kinda "meh" with a solid performance by Bogart.
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Post by mortsahlfan on May 23, 2018 22:44:50 GMT
Richard Brooks is the most underrated director, and a hell of a writer, too.. I noticed this was on TV, and even recorded it off TCM, but I had seen this a couple of years ago. I'm also a fan of Bogart and the movies themes - media//power/influence.
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Post by movielover on May 29, 2018 16:52:20 GMT
Just watched it a few Night ago. I enjoyed it.
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