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Director	Jack Webb
Selected Cast	Jack Webb as Sam Gatlin
	William Conrad as Jim Bathgate
	David Nelson as Earl Collins
	Whitney Blake as Peggy Gatlin
	Louise Lorimer as Lady Wilson
	James Bell as Ben Quinn
	Nancy Valentine as Jan Price
	Joe Flynn as Hymie Shapiro
	Richard Bakalyan as Carl Thompson
	Howard McNear as Editor
	Richard Deacon as Chapman
	Ronnie Dapo as Billy
Producer	Jack Webb

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Twistin 9th Apr 2021		Rated 6/10 Entertaining, albeit absurd depiction of a newsroom. I've been around newspaper offices off and on most of my life from spelling bee tours as a youth (before achievement was considered politically incorrect), composing advertisements in my teens, and years of slogging through work in layout and camera rooms. Maybe things were different in the 50's, but I never saw a bunch of characters strutting around making endless speeches about the newspaper game with tongues-in-cheek so deep they must have pulled muscles. No, this is closer to the style of drama Jack Webb is best known for on his TV series, Dragnet. Corny but mildly entertaining. There's a whole bunch of familiar faces in the cast, the lot of them chewing so much scenery that dentists would shudder. William Conrad, in particular, is so animated that his hard-boiled city desk editor is played for comedic relief. Fact is, only the subplot about the missing girl attempts any real drama, but ends up as melodrama. Add gobs of sentiment to the other subplot about Webb's character not wanting to adopt a child. If nothing else, the production values are clean as a whistle and the polished black and white lens work is lean and efficient. So nuke up some popcorn and queue up the pseudo noir stylings Mark VII Ltd. was best known for. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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