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The Newspaper Deadline (1952) is a classic crime drama set in the fast-paced world of newspaper journalism. Follow a determined newspaper editor as he faces pressure, danger, corruption, and a race against time to uncover the truth. With its gripping storyline, dramatic confrontations, and vintage 1950s atmosphere, this classic film delivers suspense and memorable moments from the golden age of cinema.
Experience the tension of breaking news, investigative reporting, newsroom drama, and the struggle to reveal the truth before it is too late. A compelling classic for fans of vintage crime films, newspaper stories, mystery, suspense, and classic Hollywood cinema.
Experience the tension of breaking news, investigative reporting, newsroom drama, and the struggle to reveal the truth before it is too late. A compelling classic for fans of vintage crime films, newspaper stories, mystery, suspense, and classic Hollywood cinema.
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00:00:01The End
00:01:14What part did you play in the recent local elections, Mr. Rayenzi?
00:01:18You got me mixed up with somebody else, Senator.
00:01:21I'm in a cement and contracting business.
00:01:23What would you say your earnings are per year?
00:01:26Around 20 or 30,000.
00:01:28Say, 30,000.
00:01:29You've got a $60,000 home here.
00:01:32A winter place in Miami.
00:01:34A summer place in Maine.
00:01:35Two limousines.
00:01:36A sailboat worth $50,000.
00:01:38All on $30,000 a year.
00:01:41How do you do it, Mr. Rayenzi?
00:01:42Sometimes I wonder myself, Senator.
00:01:48It was testified here yesterday that you were paid $200,000 in cash to influence the election.
00:01:54Yeah, I read that in the papers.
00:01:57Now, if somebody will only tell me where all that money is...
00:01:59Is I meddling in the election?
00:02:01Does it look like it?
00:02:03After all, you got elected, didn't you, Senator?
00:02:28You say this man keeps getting undressed without pulling down the shades.
00:02:33Well, what's your complaint, madam?
00:02:34Boy, here.
00:02:40Well, from the condition of the body, she'd been soaking in the river for several days.
00:02:44This fur coat she wore was all she had on.
00:02:46Well, maybe she was a rich society matron.
00:02:48Mink isn't class-conscious, Sonny.
00:02:51No other clothes, no identification.
00:02:53Well, Mr. Hutchison wants to see you in his office, sir.
00:02:57Boy!
00:03:05What about the Rayenzi story, George?
00:03:07Boss wants to check it first.
00:03:12Hey, man.
00:03:13Hey, man.
00:03:14Hey, man.
00:03:15Hey, man.
00:03:17Hey, man.
00:03:19Hey, man.
00:03:20Hey, man.
00:03:30Hey, man.
00:03:30One column head, Three Line Bank.
00:03:33AP says the paper's being sold.
00:03:35What?
00:03:35Sold.
00:03:36Who to?
00:03:37When?
00:03:37What about that, Frank?
00:03:39That's something only the garrisonaires Hutchison and the Gods have known, not us.
00:03:43It's a conspiracy to keep you just as you are, nice and ignorant.
00:03:47Sold.
00:03:47I can't believe it.
00:03:49Don't believe the Associated Press.
00:03:51My, my.
00:03:52Name, 2,000.
00:03:54Better run for your lives, men.
00:03:56You don't forget to trample the women, loudmouth.
00:03:59Records, give me the city desk.
00:04:02Look, who's the boss? Who says what goes in the paper?
00:04:04The managing editor, Mr. Hutchison.
00:04:06Then he's the man I want to see.
00:04:07Well, right now, he's busy in a bird dog. Why don't you sit down?
00:04:10If you don't mind.
00:04:12He's still in a make-up conference.
00:04:14Call it. Call it.
00:04:15Credit controls. Inflation to be halted.
00:04:18Billions.
00:04:19Yes? Frank Allen. Urgent.
00:04:20Okay.
00:04:22Billions required.
00:04:24National budget. O-P-S-N-A-M-E-C-A.
00:04:28What's all this mean to the reader?
00:04:31Consumption tax.
00:04:32Sounds like a disease.
00:04:34It'll be page one in every paper in the country.
00:04:36And the day, too.
00:04:37What does this tax program mean to the average man and woman?
00:04:39Not billions. That's an impossible figure.
00:04:41Here, break it down.
00:04:42Yes, sir.
00:04:43What would it cost a housewife for groceries?
00:04:45How much more for a car, a radio?
00:04:47Fifty bucks, a hundred? How much?
00:04:48Run the story as it's page one, new lead for the second edition.
00:04:51Right.
00:04:54United Press Fledged story in same slot.
00:04:57Pictures come in yet?
00:04:58With casualty lists.
00:05:00All right. Yes, Frank.
00:05:01In.
00:05:06What about the dead nude murder story?
00:05:08Is it murder?
00:05:09Looks like it.
00:05:10Looks like it.
00:05:12Who is she?
00:05:13I don't know yet.
00:05:15Got some pictures of her, though.
00:05:17Very interesting.
00:05:20Put them on postcards and send it to power.
00:05:22Our second section.
00:05:23Play it down.
00:05:23No pictures.
00:05:24Yes, sir.
00:05:25Story's fine, George.
00:05:26Tie it off.
00:05:29Yes?
00:05:30You're late for the dome.
00:05:31Okay.
00:05:33You leave tonight to handle that strike upstate?
00:05:35I'd like to stay with the Rienzi story.
00:05:37You're wasting your time, baby.
00:05:38Not if we can prove he's guilty.
00:05:40It's not our job to prove he's guilty.
00:05:42We're not detectives and we're not in the crusading business.
00:05:44Give me a week.
00:05:45Forget it.
00:05:46The state senate couldn't prove anything.
00:05:48Neither did that probe four years ago.
00:05:50You've had a nice circus, that's all.
00:05:52Television's had a field day.
00:05:53All the papers raised their circulation.
00:05:56And Rienzi's lawyers got richer.
00:05:58One week.
00:05:59Three days.
00:06:00Please, I got a good lead.
00:06:04All right.
00:06:05Stay out of trouble.
00:06:09Ed.
00:06:11That's right, Frank.
00:06:13Baby's on the auction block.
00:06:14But we're the best outfit in town.
00:06:16In the country, maybe.
00:06:18But why?
00:06:19Why sell?
00:06:20Money.
00:06:20That's usually the reason something is sold, isn't it?
00:06:24Tell them I'm on my way up.
00:06:25The heirs and the lawyers are up in the dome right now,
00:06:28waiting to explain the nature of their crime,
00:06:30with facts, figures, and falsehoods.
00:06:34One more F and they won't be drafted.
00:06:39But, Mother, the paper belongs to us.
00:06:41Why do we have to go to court to sell it?
00:06:43Perhaps because he never intended it to be sold.
00:06:46Oh, please, Mother.
00:06:47We've been over that a hundred times.
00:06:49The surrogate's court will decide that, Mrs. Garrison.
00:06:51Ed.
00:06:51Mrs. Garrison.
00:06:52What kept you so long?
00:06:54How's the expectant mother?
00:06:56Lousy.
00:06:57Hello, Ed.
00:06:57Alice.
00:06:58You're looking very well.
00:07:00How's your husband?
00:07:00Well, fine is fine.
00:07:02It's fine, isn't it?
00:07:03Let's get this over with.
00:07:05I suppose you know why we're here, Mr. Hutchison.
00:07:07Practically everybody seems to know, except the people who work here.
00:07:10We're sorry about that.
00:07:11We thought it best to make a general announcement discreetly.
00:07:14The death of a newspaper is never discreet.
00:07:17Here we go again.
00:07:19The last will and testament of the late John Garrison, drawn up just prior to his death 11 years ago,
00:07:25designated as his heirs, his eldest daughter, Alice, his daughter, Catherine, and his wife, Margaret.
00:07:32Inasmuch as Catherine attained her majority last week and became entitled to a full vote, it was decided by the
00:07:38three stockholders...
00:07:39Decided?
00:07:40Unanimously?
00:07:41Of course.
00:07:42Um, any objections?
00:07:46Would it make any difference?
00:07:48None.
00:07:50And I have no objections.
00:07:51The reason it was decided to sell rather than continue...
00:07:53Must we go into detail?
00:07:55I don't feel well.
00:07:57My entire staff feels the same way.
00:07:59Oh, Ed, what do Alice or I know about newspapers?
00:08:03Gives you an income.
00:08:04We never even come down here except twice a year from...
00:08:07You're invited every day.
00:08:09Mrs. Courtney's husband feels the money could be invested more wisely elsewhere.
00:08:13John Garrison founded this paper, not Mrs. Courtney's husband.
00:08:16We're taking care of you, Ed.
00:08:17What?
00:08:18We always try, anyhow.
00:08:20You ought to get 1% of the sale price.
00:08:21Your share will amount to slightly more than $50,000.
00:08:25You're to notify all personnel they will receive two weeks' pay.
00:08:28Wait a minute.
00:08:28If this sounds like we're being closed down, who's buying the day?
00:08:33What difference can it make?
00:08:34To the 1,500 people who work for you, it makes a lot of difference.
00:08:37Well, who is buying it?
00:08:40Or are you ashamed of it?
00:08:44Lawrence White's the buyer.
00:08:46White?
00:08:47We're being sold to the standard.
00:08:49Oh, I think I'm going to vomit.
00:08:53So do I.
00:08:54Mr. White's paper is very successful.
00:08:55He will undoubtedly make this one more profitable, too.
00:08:58It won't be this paper anymore.
00:08:59It'll be lost in the standard.
00:09:00As far as we're concerned, his offer is a generous one.
00:09:02He's only buying our circulation features and goodwill.
00:09:07He's eliminating his competition, that's all.
00:09:10Mrs. Garrison, you've got to stop them.
00:09:13Your husband created a new kind of journalism, and you helped him.
00:09:16Take a look at the first paper you ever printed.
00:09:20Here.
00:09:21Page one.
00:09:22Quote.
00:09:23This paper will fight for progress and reform.
00:09:26We'll never be satisfied merely with printing the news.
00:09:29We'll never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory wealth or predatory poverty.
00:09:34You're not selling the day.
00:09:36You're killing it.
00:09:37The hearing to approve the sale will take place in surrogate's court day after tomorrow.
00:09:40You'll be there, of course.
00:09:42I never go to funerals.
00:09:47I think I like that man.
00:09:49Too excitable.
00:09:50Much.
00:09:51It might be advisable to replace him until the sale is consummated.
00:09:55Oh, shut up.
00:09:57Please.
00:09:59Oh!
00:10:00Stop it!
00:10:01Stop it!
00:10:02Come on, kill him, Frank!
00:10:04Get him, Frank!
00:10:09Kill him, Frank!
00:10:11Kill him, Frank!
00:10:11Kill him!
00:10:11Get over you!
00:10:12Get him, Frank!
00:10:12Get him, Frank!
00:10:13Get him!
00:10:13Come on!
00:10:14Come on!
00:10:14Cut it out!
00:10:20You all right?
00:10:21In the pink.
00:10:23Yeah.
00:10:25What happened?
00:10:26One punch, six pushes, two kicks, lots of hollering, no decision.
00:10:31Henry?
00:10:31Well, I was sitting there minding my own business.
00:10:33He's been asking for it. Heard a rumor. Quit without notice.
00:10:36Took a job with the record.
00:10:37A rumor? Well, how about it, Mr. Hutchison?
00:10:40Is it a rumor?
00:10:42We have a right to protect ourselves, haven't we?
00:10:45Well, go ahead. Tell us we got nothing to worry about.
00:10:54The day after tomorrow, when Surrey gets caught,
00:10:59you got two weeks' pay coming to you, the paper's closing.
00:11:02You quit now and look for another job or wait for the probate judge's decision.
00:11:07It's up to you.
00:11:10There's nothing personal, Mr. Hutchison. I have my family to think about.
00:11:14That's right, Henry. Nothing personal.
00:11:18Well, Mr. Hutchison, the mayor...
00:11:20I'm busy.
00:11:23What are you gonna do?
00:11:24I got an assignment.
00:11:25Harry?
00:11:27There's still a sports page to get out.
00:11:45Fighting.
00:11:47A man your age did me good.
00:11:49He was right to quit. They all ought to quit.
00:11:51Maybe.
00:11:52Anyway, I got it out of my system.
00:11:55You were with the New York world, weren't you?
00:11:57Under Pulitzer, Cobb, and Barrett.
00:12:01What'd you do when it folded?
00:12:02Let's see now.
00:12:03I think I got myself a drink.
00:12:06Yep, I'm sure of it.
00:12:07Then what'd you do?
00:12:09Came over here and went to work for old man Garrison.
00:12:12He was a great newspaper man.
00:12:14Yeah, but no good as a father. Terrible.
00:12:17Daughters.
00:12:18One of them married to a high-class broker who knows how to invest their money more wisely.
00:12:23They hate the paper, same as they hated the old man.
00:12:26Couldn't get at him when he was alive, so now they're kicking him when he's dead.
00:12:30Yes?
00:12:30Five minutes to press time.
00:12:32Okay, come in.
00:12:34Everybody in this racket gets kicked sooner or later, dead or alive.
00:12:37Get that in the fudge box.
00:12:39Yes, sir.
00:12:40Uh, the mayor...
00:12:40Darn the mayor!
00:12:42Yes, sir.
00:12:46The mayor.
00:12:48All he cares about is we'll support him for reelection if we fold.
00:12:51By now, the boys will be having a nice, lively week in O'Brien's.
00:12:55Ever been to one?
00:12:56Before you know it, lads, you won't be feeling a thing, not a blessed thing.
00:13:00That's what a week is for.
00:13:14That's right.
00:13:17Brothers and sisters, hush up for a minute.
00:13:21Friends, it's an unemployed...
00:13:23Here, lend me your ears.
00:13:25We're gathered here to bear a seat.
00:13:27No!
00:13:27No!
00:13:28Brothers and sisters, we came to praise the day, not bury it.
00:13:35I got the urge, brother!
00:13:37I got the urge!
00:13:38I got the urge!
00:13:39Repair that ritual!
00:13:39Brother Cleary, a sinner of 14 years standing, sitting or lying down, will let out the misery.
00:13:47Hallelujah!
00:13:48Maestro, be flat of you, please.
00:13:50Flash, scoop, scoop, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
00:13:54-dee.
00:13:54I came over the River Jordan from a weekly scandal sheet and asked old John Garrison for a job.
00:13:59Are you a journalist or a reporter, he said.
00:14:02What's the difference, I said?
00:14:04A journalist makes himself the hero of the story, a reporter is only the witness.
00:14:12Sister Bondollar!
00:14:13Sister Bondollar!
00:14:15Has the spirit moved the research department?
00:14:18Boop!
00:14:20The spirit's moved her, all right.
00:14:23Hallelujah!
00:14:24Pass the collection box!
00:14:25Sister Willebrand!
00:14:26Coming through the rye.
00:14:29Present and half accounted.
00:14:31Hey!
00:14:33Come on, honey.
00:14:34Give us a soul talk.
00:14:36It's a lovely corpse.
00:14:38The last poor dear, I knew it well.
00:14:42Then why not?
00:14:43I gave it the best 14 years of my life.
00:14:47Then what have I got to show for it, huh?
00:14:50$81 in the bank.
00:14:52Two dead husbands and two or three kids I always wanted but never had.
00:15:00I've covered everything from electrocutions to love nest brawls.
00:15:04I've got fallen arches, unfixed teeth.
00:15:06And you want to know something?
00:15:07I never saw Paris.
00:15:11But I wouldn't change those years.
00:15:15Not for anything in this world.
00:15:23I see the light, brother.
00:15:26Purify your soul, sinner!
00:15:28Save your tears.
00:15:30This is what the readers want.
00:15:32Throw the atheists out!
00:15:34Don't sell it short.
00:15:35It's got twice our circulation and three times our advertising lineage.
00:15:43It's wild and yellow, but it's not exactly a newspaper.
00:15:48It keeps its people working.
00:15:50Hallelujah!
00:15:51Well, maybe if I'd given you this kind of paper, you'd still have jobs.
00:15:55There's a place for this kind of sheet.
00:15:57Where, daddy?
00:15:58All right, so it's not your kind of paper.
00:16:01Who are we putting out papers for?
00:16:02You?
00:16:03You?
00:16:04You?
00:16:06Not enough anymore to give them just news.
00:16:08They want comics, contests, puzzles.
00:16:11They want to know how to bake a cake, win friends, and influence the future.
00:16:16Ergo horoscopes, tips on the horses, interpretation of dreams so they can win on the numbers lotteries.
00:16:22And if they accidentally stumble on the first page, news.
00:16:36You know, I never got to Paris either.
00:16:42Have some anesthetic, brother.
00:16:43Glory!
00:16:46Glory!
00:16:46Glory!
00:16:47Hallelujah!
00:16:49Glory!
00:16:50Glory!
00:16:51Hallelujah!
00:16:53Glory!
00:16:54Glory!
00:16:55Hallelujah!
00:16:57His day is done and gone.
00:17:01I'm not alone.
00:17:19Feeling any pain, Ed?
00:17:22Well, it was a nice wake.
00:17:25Night.
00:17:35Mr. Hutchison.
00:17:38I've been trying to see you all day, sir.
00:17:41I said I'd find you here.
00:17:44This'll introduce me, sir.
00:17:45It's from my journalism professor at the university.
00:17:48Oh.
00:17:49So you want to be a newspaper man?
00:17:52Yes, sir.
00:17:53One student a semester is recommended.
00:17:55And you're it?
00:17:57Yes, sir.
00:17:57Newspaper man is the best profession in the world.
00:18:00You know what a profession is?
00:18:03It's a skilled job.
00:18:05Yeah, so is repairing watches.
00:18:07Nope.
00:18:09A profession is a performance for public good.
00:18:12That's why newspaper work is a profession.
00:18:15Yes, sir.
00:18:16Yes, sir.
00:18:18I, uh...
00:18:19I suppose you want to be a columnist.
00:18:21Foreign correspondent to Egypt.
00:18:24You speak Arabic?
00:18:25No, sir, but...
00:18:27But you do know the customs, habits, religion, superstitions of the people.
00:18:32Well, I took a course in Near Eastern religion.
00:18:34You know the psychology of Egyptian politics and Muslim diplomacy?
00:18:38No, sir.
00:18:39Expert on economy, topography and geography of Egypt?
00:18:42I speak a little French.
00:18:44Maybe I could get a job in the...
00:18:45Yeah, so do I.
00:18:46But I couldn't hold down a job in my own Paris office.
00:18:50Yes.
00:18:50I see.
00:18:55Hey, Joe.
00:19:01So you want to be a reporter.
00:19:04Here's some advice about this racket.
00:19:07Don't ever change your mind.
00:19:09It may not be the oldest profession, but it's the best.
00:19:12Yes, sir.
00:19:38Hi.
00:19:38Why?
00:19:40Why don't you go home, Ed?
00:19:43Yes, ma'am.
00:19:51Guess what?
00:19:55Scotch.
00:19:56I have decided to dedicate my life to you.
00:20:00Yes, dear.
00:20:01Yes, dear.
00:20:04That's why I'm gonna give you the best years of my life.
00:20:07Mm-hmm.
00:20:11You know what's the matter with you?
00:20:13You're a spectic.
00:20:15Hmm?
00:20:15Uh, skeptic.
00:20:17Yes, dear.
00:20:20White beer?
00:20:22Homogenized.
00:20:24Couldn't we spark it with a little scotch?
00:20:28Drink that, as is.
00:20:30Nora.
00:20:31Nora.
00:20:33I love you.
00:20:34Let's get married again.
00:20:36Tonight.
00:20:46This could bring on my second childhood.
00:20:49It already has coming here this time of night.
00:20:56Nora.
00:20:57I'm free.
00:21:00Fired.
00:21:01Canned.
00:21:02No more paper.
00:21:04Nothing to keep us apart anymore.
00:21:07The paper has been sold.
00:21:09I know.
00:21:19Divorce is a very evil thing, Nora.
00:21:24Down from my Olympian Heights I come...
00:21:28...umbly.
00:21:30I'm gonna make a decent woman of you again, Nora.
00:21:34Yes, dear.
00:21:38We'll go on a second honeymoon.
00:21:40We never had a first.
00:21:41No, I'm leveling, baby.
00:21:43There's no more paper.
00:21:45Travel.
00:21:46That's what we'll do.
00:21:47Europe, South America, everywhere.
00:21:49No worry about expense.
00:21:51I am loaded.
00:21:53So I noticed.
00:21:55I mean money.
00:21:56More money than we've ever had in our lives.
00:21:59I was paid off for being a good boy.
00:22:02Ed.
00:22:04Look.
00:22:05Listen.
00:22:07You shouldn't have come here.
00:22:12It won't work out.
00:22:17Yeah.
00:22:29Not bad copy.
00:22:31Not bad at all.
00:22:35How is the advertising business?
00:22:39You know you were right to quit the newspaper.
00:22:42Now you've got something you can depend on.
00:22:45Something legitimate.
00:22:49I went to a wake tonight.
00:22:51Saw the light, sister.
00:22:53Hallelujah.
00:23:02Why should I fight?
00:23:04For what?
00:23:06Publishers don't care about the paper.
00:23:08The paper doesn't care about me.
00:23:10And I don't care about anybody except you.
00:23:14Haven't I met him some ways before?
00:23:17No.
00:23:17Just now.
00:23:18In the living room.
00:23:19Oh, yeah.
00:23:20Fight.
00:23:21What with?
00:23:22I'm an employee, not a stockholder.
00:23:26Maybe I should have taken it to the readers.
00:23:28Ah!
00:23:29What do they care?
00:23:30You gotta have an issue for that.
00:23:32Red hot story.
00:23:36Nora?
00:23:37Right here, darling.
00:23:39Right here, darling.
00:23:41I don't have to think about anybody but us.
00:23:45Yes, dear.
00:23:47We'll have some great times together like we used to.
00:23:51Remember that time in Saranac when everybody thought we weren't married, so we went out and got married?
00:23:57The second time.
00:23:58And the fishing trips we never went on and the hunting trips I promised you.
00:24:03We'll make them all this time.
00:24:04Yes, dear.
00:24:05Now I went up to Reno to try to stop the divorce.
00:24:09What is that you charge me with?
00:24:12Incompatibility.
00:24:13Incompatibility.
00:24:15That was a lie.
00:24:16They know where to reach you?
00:24:18I don't have to account to anybody.
00:24:20Yes, dear.
00:24:24I don't like him.
00:24:26I'll think of a reason later.
00:24:28Good night, dear.
00:24:51This morning snake stinks in front of me.
00:24:52nicest.
00:25:05It's a good night fun.
00:25:06What happened?
00:25:10No.
00:25:14Hurry up.
00:25:19when did this happen what time is it now 6 what 6 20. where did it happen would you call
00:25:31the
00:25:31hospital are they sending an ambulance okay
00:25:40good morning darling ed i thought no one knew you were here where else would i go when i'm in
00:25:48trouble ed who slept here it's time we had a talk ed not now baby i'm in a hurry that
00:25:57call was urgent
00:25:58dinner tonight why not every night alberta's place okay eight o'clock i thought you were in a hurry
00:26:05did i have a pleasant time last night yes dear i did well what do you know
00:26:22i was making my round sir first i didn't notice anything and i heard a kind of low moaning coming
00:26:28from the road down there well good morning automobile accident eh get into the hospital
00:26:34name i said get him to hospital wait a minute my name is burroughs i work for the day he
00:26:42runs
00:26:50they started banging me around when they got me in the car how many were there three maybe four well
00:26:58what was it three or four i don't know
00:27:00all right they gave you a going over what with fists one of them hit me in the face with
00:27:06something
00:27:06hard a sap i guess what they say nothing not after they got me in the car before yes outside
00:27:13the hall of
00:27:13records i told you tell me again please sir he's shut up the hall of records she went there to
00:27:20check on
00:27:20rianzi george man i talked to must have tipped rianzi yeah how do you know left the office for a
00:27:29few
00:27:29minutes probably phoned probably but you're not positive no i won't stand up in court well how else
00:27:35were they waiting for me when i came out who was waiting rianzi's men identify them one maybe
00:27:43former boxer torpedo know his name whitey i'm not sure whitey something if i brought him in could
00:27:51you identify him he asked me if i was burroughs he asked me if i worked for the day what
00:27:56my car was
00:27:57it i don't know sedan blue black what what are you trying to do protect rianzi i want facts that
00:28:02won't
00:28:02bounce facts that'll stand up against rianzi's lawyers and libel suits facts that'll tear rianzi's
00:28:07syndicate wide open it just can't be any mistake we can't have any retractions george
00:28:31how's it look i'm afraid he may lose that eye
00:28:36mr burroughs go away mr hutcherson let us alone are you blaming me who sent him out and for what
00:28:46the great big fat glory of a newspaper the paper you haven't even got anymore
00:28:55mr allen today good morning
00:28:59put every man you can spare on the rianzi story picture layout the works where he gets his money
00:29:03to tie up data facts facts and more facts the tough thing is to prove them then prove them later
00:29:11charlie boy city morgue this is willebrand of the day any identification yet on that nude in the fur coat
00:29:20it's born dollar relax ever heard of rianzi okay now rianzi tomas 51 born palermo sicily
00:29:30emigrated here emigrated here 1914 attended public school number 47 has two children by legal wife
00:29:35gertrude we're not proposing him for the chamber of commerce we want to convict him of every known
00:29:39crime in the books all of which he's committed and some even you even i never heard of i want
00:29:43everything yes sir i must have taken 20 shots of her as they were dragging her out of the river
00:29:48that fur coat's worth five or six thousand dollars get your camera cover burrows in the city hospital
00:29:52george oh george that's right you take rianzi his wife home cars everything what if he smashes the
00:29:58camera he's done it before let him you get pictures of him doing it go ahead
00:30:06bill bill i want a cartoon on rianzi it's got to be hard tough below the belt the vulture is
00:30:12sucking
00:30:12the life out of a city you got it but a vulture only prays on the dead or the dying
00:30:21pray here's your caption let us pray p-r-e-y paper why should i stick my neck out i
00:30:27want it for the
00:30:27first edition i don't like the idea i get in a jam with rianzi and tomorrow the paper folds anyway
00:30:33where does that leave me you're fired wait a minute ram off and get them out of here why the
00:30:38excitement
00:30:38everybody knows we're washed up that's your mistake but i worked here four years that's my mistake
00:30:45say that get you about to get your stenotype in there get dr emmanuel on the phone
00:30:53draw five hundred dollars out of my bank and get it over to burrows wife
00:30:57mr bellamy here's been waiting oh yeah rewrite desk lobster ship what's the lobster ship after
00:31:06midnight we circled out thermidor naturally uh page one editorial ten point type double column
00:31:17byline set off in boldface will be
00:31:24john garrison quote
00:31:30i am dead
00:31:33i've been dead for eleven years by tomorrow this newspaper may also be dead but as long as it
00:31:41lives the day will continue to report the facts and the meaning of those facts without fear
00:31:48without distortion without hope of personal gain as it always has done
00:31:56yes dr emmanuel on two
00:32:01oh hello doctor no no no no i'm fine yeah uh i want to ask you a favor personal friend
00:32:09of mine
00:32:10needs your help he's in the city hospital name is burrows george burrows what
00:32:19what is more important doctor you're delivering a lecture in london or saving a man's eyesight
00:32:25well cancel it well then delay it
00:32:30we weren't too busy to raise funds for your clinic
00:32:32well certainly i'm putting it on a personal basis what's a friend for if not for a favor
00:32:38thank you
00:32:40a real humanitarian
00:32:46uh where was i
00:32:48we'll continue to report the facts and the meaning of those facts
00:32:51oh that sentence is too long break it down
00:32:55change the word distortion somebody might know what it means
00:32:58okay
00:33:00paragraph quote
00:33:02what are the facts rianzi stuffs your ballot boxes
00:33:08oh
00:33:11oh
00:33:12oh
00:33:12oh
00:33:13oh
00:33:14oh
00:33:15oh
00:33:39anything i'll save the paper this is it
00:33:51you see the paper yet
00:33:54who's responsible
00:33:57hutchison
00:33:59we'll talk to him
00:34:03why can't you
00:34:07i want to meet him personally
00:34:12why not
00:34:16everybody can be reached
00:34:19remember judge
00:34:24give me a three column leave two line bank on that rave
00:34:27evening mr white
00:34:28did you see this spread on rianzi in the day
00:34:30yes sir
00:34:31what have you done about it for our paper
00:34:32done sir a reporter gets into a barroom brawl
00:34:34they say it was rianzi
00:34:36but can they prove it
00:34:37prove it
00:34:38front page editorials flashy cartoons
00:34:40why it's old-fashioned mr white
00:34:41and what's so ultra modern about this horse in our paper
00:34:45then give me some old-fashioned journalism in the standard
00:34:48yes
00:34:51give me the city hospital
00:34:56the
00:34:57sorry i'm late
00:34:57you like it
00:34:59it's the best looking front page in town
00:35:01as usual
00:35:02the makeup
00:35:03the cartoon
00:35:05the
00:35:05the editorial under the name of garrison
00:35:07yours
00:35:07oh
00:35:08it's wonderful
00:35:09as usual
00:35:10and how are we
00:35:11are we as usual
00:35:13maybe the heirs will sit up and take notice
00:35:15of us
00:35:16they won't sell the paper
00:35:18not now
00:35:18not in the middle of a fight like this
00:35:20it'd be like endorsing rianzi
00:35:21it's a wonderful dress for dinner
00:35:24you look much better than you did last night
00:35:26how do you feel
00:35:27amorous
00:35:28good evening mrs hutchinson
00:35:29evening mr hutchinson your table's ready sir
00:35:31will you order now
00:35:32an appetizer first perhaps
00:35:34oh no
00:35:35thank you i have mine
00:35:37i'll just steak for me
00:35:39telephone mr hutchinson
00:35:40tell him i'm feeding
00:35:42they said it's important
00:35:44urgent dear
00:35:44as usual
00:35:51keep calling her mrs hutchinson
00:35:52yes sir
00:35:54mrs hutchinson
00:36:00yes
00:36:01this is willebrand i'm at the city morgue
00:36:03the place where little girls check their fur coats
00:36:06the dead news what about her
00:36:09well her mother showed up to identify this afternoon as a
00:36:12a mrs schmidt
00:36:14that's the girl's name bessie schmidt
00:36:16but she also used the name sally gardner
00:36:20why bother me write it
00:36:21well what i wanted to know was this
00:36:23now alan said he thought i ought to check with you first but uh
00:36:29this mrs schmidt knows a lot more than she's telling
00:36:35she's telling her
00:36:37no
00:36:37no but i thought maybe if you talked to her you could get
00:36:39let's not be dramatic mrs willebrand
00:36:41no no no i can't you handle it
00:36:43no no i can't make her
00:37:04no no no noective
00:37:12cc
00:37:14You don't know the man. He's my boss at the advertising agency.
00:37:20First me, now another boss.
00:37:22It's getting to be a habit with you, isn't it?
00:37:24I'd like you to meet him.
00:37:25Compare notes, you mean?
00:37:27Thanks. I know enough people already.
00:37:29His name is Lewis Shafer.
00:37:30I don't want to know anything about him.
00:37:32I told him all about you.
00:37:33Everything?
00:37:35Sit down.
00:37:38I'm not one of your modern husbands,
00:37:40chin-up, stiff upper lip and all that sort of stuff.
00:37:42Always ready to discuss things sensibly.
00:37:44There isn't anything to discuss.
00:37:46I don't need your consent.
00:37:47We're divorced, have been for two years.
00:37:49I don't recognize a divorce.
00:37:50You agreed to it.
00:37:51I was wrong.
00:37:52You're my wife.
00:37:54Not only because somebody said a few words over us,
00:37:57but because of all we meant to each other for eight years.
00:37:59You can't change all that with more words, legal or otherwise.
00:38:03They want you on the telephone, Mr. Hutchison.
00:38:05No way.
00:38:06You want me to quit the paper, okay?
00:38:08I'll get another job.
00:38:09Something...
00:38:09I have to go back today.
00:38:11Tomorrow it's over.
00:38:12It's right that you should go back.
00:38:14It's where you belong.
00:38:16You're the best newspaper man in the world.
00:38:19I don't want to change that.
00:38:21I never did.
00:38:22It's your whole life, and for you it's right.
00:38:25I've got to write it to a life too, and you can't give it to me.
00:38:30Can he?
00:38:32Maybe.
00:38:34Can you be the same with him as you were with me?
00:38:37Is it that easy?
00:38:41Do you love him?
00:38:44No, you don't.
00:38:46Not the same way.
00:38:48Maybe love isn't enough to make a marriage work.
00:38:52Please.
00:38:53Mr. Hutchison.
00:38:54I'm sorry to bother you again, but it's your office.
00:38:57Mr. Allen.
00:38:59He said if you won't come to the phone, then to come back to the paper.
00:39:01I'm sorry, sir.
00:39:05I'm sorry, sir.
00:39:20Yes?
00:39:20Yes.
00:39:23What?
00:39:25Yank what story?
00:39:27Willebrand story.
00:39:29On Sally Gardner.
00:39:30Well, it was pulled by our advertising department.
00:39:34It seems Mr. Andrew Wharton, president of Wharton's department store, was Sally's caviar ticket.
00:39:42Right.
00:39:44Right.
00:39:46Composing room.
00:39:47One column head, one bank on this weather report.
00:39:50Yeah?
00:39:51Jake.
00:39:52I'm Willebrand story, Sally Gardner.
00:39:54Yeah.
00:39:56Hold it.
00:39:57But don't kill it.
00:40:09You worry about every story in our paper, Mr. Fenway?
00:40:12It just seemed to me this was libelous material.
00:40:14We've got over a hundred stories in this issue.
00:40:16Check them all for libel?
00:40:17No, sir.
00:40:18Or any of them?
00:40:18No, sir.
00:40:19I see.
00:40:20You're a self-appointed censor only on stories involving big advertisers.
00:40:23I was trying to protect us.
00:40:24Us or you or Mr. Wharton?
00:40:26And for how much?
00:40:26He denies this story.
00:40:28Willebrand included his denial.
00:40:29From there on, it's up to the police.
00:40:30I thought as a matter of policy...
00:40:32Policy?
00:40:33Since when has the advertising department of this paper dictated its policy on news?
00:40:37I didn't act on my own.
00:40:38No, you haven't got the guts.
00:40:40So you went to Wharton.
00:40:41Run the story.
00:40:42I talked to Alice Garrison.
00:40:44Mr. Wharton came here.
00:40:45We phoned her.
00:40:45It was on her authority.
00:40:46She hasn't got the authority.
00:40:47Not until I'm out of here.
00:40:49Well, have you arranged for that too?
00:40:51No, sir.
00:40:53It was slipping.
00:40:54Will you talk to Mr. Wharton?
00:40:56He's waiting right in here.
00:40:58Mr. Wharton.
00:41:00This is Mr. Hutchison.
00:41:01How do you do, sir?
00:41:05May I give you my side of it?
00:41:07I'll take care of this.
00:41:12Please don't publish that story.
00:41:14Why? Isn't it true?
00:41:15It can't do you much good.
00:41:16And it'll ruin me and hurt my family.
00:41:19I've been doing business with your paper for 20 years.
00:41:22You're a big advertiser, Mr. Wharton.
00:41:24We need your business.
00:41:25But not on those terms.
00:41:26All right.
00:41:27I made a mistake with Sally.
00:41:28But that was 10 years ago.
00:41:30And I've paid for it in blackmail every month.
00:41:33I'm sorry, Mr. Wharton.
00:41:34This is the matter for the police.
00:41:36You are interested in facts, aren't you?
00:41:40One day, Sally phoned.
00:41:42She was quitting her job at the store.
00:41:44She was letting me off the hook.
00:41:46She said there was another man.
00:41:48Another man there always is.
00:41:50In this case, the man was Tomas Rienci.
00:41:53Sally said she loved him.
00:41:54Would never bother me again.
00:41:56She even sent back some damaging photographs of us.
00:42:01She said she was set for life.
00:42:03What does she mean by that?
00:42:04She didn't say.
00:42:07Surely you don't think I'd kill Sally.
00:42:09I haven't seen her in over two years.
00:42:11Mrs. Wharton knew about Sally.
00:42:13She suggested that I talk to you.
00:42:14Your paper forced me to come here.
00:42:16But now that I'm here, I don't know who...
00:42:20Wharton, you can tell your wife I'm holding the story.
00:42:24Thank you, sir.
00:42:25But if that yarn about Rienci doesn't gel...
00:42:27It will.
00:42:28Better, for both eyes' sakes.
00:42:31Jim.
00:42:32Later, dear.
00:42:34What have you got on Sally Gardner?
00:42:36The furry blonde?
00:42:38Uh-huh.
00:42:38She was abroad.
00:42:40Yes, but who?
00:42:41Since when do you go in for gossip?
00:42:43Since now.
00:42:48Jim.
00:42:50Was Rienci playing around with Sally?
00:42:53What do you want?
00:42:54Proof.
00:42:55I want to be sure.
00:42:56From this, a fella could catch a hole in the head.
00:42:59Yeah, he could.
00:43:00That bother you?
00:43:02Oh, no.
00:43:02No, no, no.
00:43:14Harry.
00:43:17You ever hear of Herman Schmidt?
00:43:19Small-time stuff.
00:43:20Had some kind of a political job at the arena.
00:43:22Boxing judge, I think.
00:43:24Oh, yeah.
00:43:24I got him now.
00:43:25Brother of Sally Gardner.
00:43:28Sally may have been tied in with Rienci.
00:43:30I know one thing.
00:43:31Rienci's tied in with the boxing commission.
00:43:35Now.
00:43:37Get a hold of Schmidt.
00:43:38Sweat him.
00:43:39About his job?
00:43:40No, about Sally.
00:43:42Boy.
00:43:42Here's Willebrand's copy.
00:43:44All we've got on Sally is she was once a bathing beauty.
00:43:48One thing it's short on is time.
00:43:50Sally and her brother were born here.
00:43:53Her mother came from Germany.
00:43:54Father dead.
00:43:56No known criminal record for Sally.
00:43:58No recorded marriages.
00:44:01Yes?
00:44:02Mr. Lewis Schaefer to see you.
00:44:07Okay.
00:44:12The bond dollar.
00:44:13Yes, sir.
00:44:14Relax.
00:44:16If Lugerman's closed the financial page, ask him to come in.
00:44:18Yes, sir.
00:44:27Happy to meet you, Mr. Hutchinson.
00:44:28Yeah.
00:44:29Have those pictures?
00:44:30All right here.
00:44:32Put them up here chronologically.
00:44:34Sit down, Mr. Schaefer.
00:44:36But would I have a space for the missing period between Wharton and Rienzi?
00:44:39Yes, sir.
00:44:41Coffee, Mr. Schaefer?
00:44:42Sandwich?
00:44:42No, thanks.
00:44:43I didn't mean to interrupt your work.
00:44:46How's my wife?
00:44:47What's what I came to see you about?
00:44:48Shoot.
00:44:50Well...
00:44:51Nora asked you to come?
00:44:52Well, of course not.
00:44:53I thought that we could...
00:44:56Well, this is rather personal, Mr. Hutchinson.
00:44:58Inasmuch as it concerns my wife, I hope it's not too personal.
00:45:02You're making her very unhappy.
00:45:04Pardon me?
00:45:05Oh, Lugerman.
00:45:06I want to report on all Rienzi's investments.
00:45:08Legit and otherwise.
00:45:09Dummy corporations, everything.
00:45:11Real estate, manufacturing investments.
00:45:13Whatever you can dig up.
00:45:14You got a starting point?
00:45:15Try the tax reports.
00:45:17Charlie and the governor's office might give you a hand.
00:45:18Right.
00:45:19Make it thorough.
00:45:23So I'm making her unhappy, Mr. Schaefer.
00:45:27Let her alone.
00:45:28You're confusing her, making her feel guilty.
00:45:30Her responsibility to you is over.
00:45:32Well, then why are you here?
00:45:33I'm only trying to do what's best for Nora.
00:45:36Well, that's not only ridiculous, but insulting.
00:45:37You're not that much of a pride.
00:45:39Ed, here's the...
00:45:40Oh, excuse me.
00:45:42And what have you got?
00:45:43Sally bought some government bonds.
00:45:45When?
00:45:45Five months ago.
00:45:46Sally or Rienzi?
00:45:47In her name.
00:45:4840,000 worth.
00:45:50And it took some doing at this hour,
00:45:51but we've got a checkup working in every bank for savings accounts.
00:45:54Safety deposit boxes?
00:45:55That too.
00:45:55That's all we've got.
00:45:56Okay.
00:45:57Look here, Frank.
00:46:00Sally's a high school girl.
00:46:01Model for Wharton's department store.
00:46:03Show girl.
00:46:03Kept girl.
00:46:05Missing portion.
00:46:06The river.
00:46:07Now, if we can plug up this hole between Wharton's department store and the river,
00:46:10fill it up with Rienzi.
00:46:14Goodbye, Mr. Schaefer.
00:46:15I can't wish you good luck.
00:46:16You know how it is.
00:46:17There's something you ought to know, Mr. Hutchison.
00:46:19Yes?
00:46:19Jim Cleary on one.
00:46:22Yes, Jim.
00:46:23Nora and I are getting married tomorrow night.
00:46:28I thought it best not to delay any longer.
00:46:31You know how it is.
00:46:36Yes, yes, go ahead.
00:46:37Here it is.
00:46:38Just what you've been looking for.
00:46:40Yeah.
00:46:41Rienzi's your boy, all right.
00:46:48Frank.
00:46:48Oh, it's the only show Rienzi backed.
00:46:50He insisted Sally be in it.
00:46:53I'm with Al Murray now.
00:46:55He says Rienzi used to send a car around for her every night after the show.
00:47:00Hold it.
00:47:01Switch this call to rewrite.
00:47:02You hear that, Cleary?
00:47:03Yes.
00:47:03Okay.
00:47:05Oh, Frank.
00:47:07On the Willebrandt story, kill the part about Wharton.
00:47:11Use Cleary's story for a lead-all.
00:47:13Throw in Sally's face.
00:47:14No nudity.
00:47:21Miss Bondollar.
00:47:22Yes, sir.
00:47:24I want a complete check on Lewis Schaefer, runs the United Advertising Agency.
00:47:29Schaefer.
00:47:30Yes, sir.
00:47:33Anything from Trampson yet?
00:47:35No, sir.
00:47:35No, sir.
00:47:41Hold it.
00:47:41I forgot you.
00:47:42You...
00:47:49Mr. Schmidt.
00:47:56Mr. Schmidt.
00:48:05Mr. Schmidt.
00:48:06Don't move.
00:48:06I just want...
00:48:07Shut up.
00:48:13Take your hat off.
00:48:19Sit down.
00:48:20No, over there.
00:48:26Put your hands on the table.
00:48:32Relax, Herman.
00:48:33I'm here to help you.
00:48:35Who's with you?
00:48:36Nobody.
00:48:39What's the pitch?
00:48:41My name is Thompson, reporter.
00:48:43Sports.
00:48:44For the day...
00:48:44Don't do that!
00:48:48Sports, huh?
00:48:53What'd you write today?
00:49:01The question of televising next season's baseball games was discussed at a heated session of the Hot Stove League yesterday.
00:49:13What do you want?
00:49:15Would you mind putting that thing away?
00:49:18How did you find me?
00:49:20You know a lot of people in the fight game.
00:49:22They owe me favors.
00:49:23I collected a few.
00:49:26All right.
00:49:27Get to it.
00:49:31Why did Rienzi kill your sister?
00:49:36Did he?
00:49:39Then who are you afraid of, Herman?
00:49:42Why the hideout?
00:49:45They won't get you anywhere.
00:49:47I phoned your address into the paper.
00:49:48They know I'm here.
00:49:50By the next edition, Rienzi will know where you are.
00:49:58We're your only chance, Herman.
00:50:00Let me take you to the paper and you'll be safe.
00:50:05Sooner or later, Rienzi will get to you and you'll wind up in the morgue beside Sally.
00:50:12As long as Rienzi is free, you're a dead pigeon.
00:50:19Take your time.
00:50:22Rienzi won't get his copy of the day with your address until morning.
00:50:42I have carefully read the last will and testament of the deceased, John Garrison.
00:50:47I find nothing therein to prevent the sale of the publication enterprises known as the day.
00:50:53Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison, wife of the deceased and one of the heirs, would like to address the court.
00:50:58Mrs. Garrison?
00:51:01Sir, I object to the sale of this paper to Mr. White.
00:51:04Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison has agreed.
00:51:06But this request for sale was signed by you, Mrs. Garrison.
00:51:10I've changed my mind.
00:51:12Mrs. Garrison's daughters have not and they constitute a majority.
00:51:15My husband would not have wished this paper to be sold to Mr. White.
00:51:18How do you know?
00:51:19Your Honor, I object to cross-examination until the witness has completed her statement.
00:51:24You knew the paper was being sold to Mr. White?
00:51:27But I did not know it was going to be rubbed out of existence,
00:51:29which it will be if this contract is approved.
00:51:32What happens to this newspaper after it has been sold is of absolutely no concern here.
00:51:37Is Mr. Crane the lawyer and the judge?
00:51:39This is a cheap display of sensational conspiracy.
00:51:42Would the other heirs care to reconsider?
00:51:45No, sir.
00:51:46Would it be all right, Mr. Crane, if they answered for themselves?
00:51:54Mrs. Alice Garrison Courtney, do you still wish to sell?
00:52:00Yes, sir.
00:52:01Mrs. Catherine Garrison Geary.
00:52:06Yes, sir.
00:52:10In that case, the paper may be sold.
00:52:13Then I'll buy it.
00:52:14The contract already exists.
00:52:15But, Your Honor, Mrs. Garrison has priority of purchase.
00:52:18I'll raise Mr. White's offer.
00:52:20Your Honor, I cannot see that my client's interest to be...
00:52:22I have to object to my daughters receiving more money.
00:52:25That's what they're selling out for, isn't it? Money?
00:52:27Well, counsel kindly step up here.
00:52:32You can't do this.
00:52:34I can, I want to, and I'm going to.
00:52:36What good will it do?
00:52:38You'll be happy to know this stupidity is not hereditary. You've acquired it all by yourselves.
00:52:43You're making us sound like fools.
00:52:45Well?
00:52:46What changed your mind?
00:52:48Have you seen today's paper and yesterday's?
00:52:51Loyalty changed my mind.
00:52:53A principle evidently lacking in the present generation.
00:52:57You haven't got the money to buy the paper.
00:52:59I'll get it.
00:53:00You're crazy.
00:53:02No, just ashamed.
00:53:04Ashamed for me, and for you, and for your father.
00:53:07I'm not going to let this paper die.
00:53:10That makes me crazy.
00:53:13I'm good and crazy.
00:53:15All right.
00:53:19I shall require time to consider Mrs. Garrison's request.
00:53:24Counsel will be notified when this court will reconvene.
00:53:27Sir.
00:53:28Mr. White.
00:53:29Any delay, even 24 hours, will wreck the value of the day.
00:53:34People will not buy a dying paper nor advertise in it.
00:53:38Now the staff of the day will become demoralized.
00:53:41No newspaper can function under this handicap.
00:53:44Thank you, Mr. White.
00:53:46However, I must reserve decision.
00:53:51But, if the current high standard of journalism in the day slackens,
00:53:55or any act of neglect threatens the well-being of this newspaper,
00:54:00I shall be forced to make an immediate decision based upon the current contract.
00:54:12Mr. Hutchison, my name is Hanson.
00:54:13Yes?
00:54:14I'm, uh, Mr. Yancey's lawyer.
00:54:16He's waiting to see you in his car.
00:54:18Why?
00:54:19It's personal business.
00:54:21A ride?
00:54:22No, sir. A drive.
00:54:29All right.
00:54:31How do you do, Mr. Hutchison?
00:54:40I'll give you a lift someplace.
00:54:42Why?
00:54:43I'm the sociable type.
00:54:45They're expecting me at my office.
00:54:48Okay, Lippy.
00:54:50Okay what?
00:54:51Just okay.
00:54:53I wondered when and how you'd get around to this.
00:54:56Yeah?
00:54:57Yeah, I expected something a little more poetic.
00:55:00Drink?
00:55:02Well, now that's rather poetic.
00:55:05What will it be?
00:55:06Nothing.
00:55:07Not a drink of man?
00:55:08Not in an armored car.
00:55:11I think I like you.
00:55:13Why?
00:55:15Imagination.
00:55:16I like a man with imagination.
00:55:18You're a good newspaper man, they say.
00:55:19You're not bad at your trade either.
00:55:22You got two Pulitzer Prizes, they say.
00:55:24Are they weight much?
00:55:25Cash, about $500 a piece.
00:55:28Your kind of imagination is weight more.
00:55:30I agree.
00:55:32But you're a hothead, they say.
00:55:34Who's they?
00:55:35Friends.
00:55:37I got friends everywhere.
00:55:39I'd like for you to be my friend.
00:55:41I got a friend.
00:55:42Not like me.
00:55:43Is that a proposal or a proposition?
00:55:46What do you got against me?
00:55:48You're not my type.
00:55:50You ever meet me before?
00:55:52Do business with me?
00:55:54Or maybe you got the wrong impression of me.
00:55:56What kind of an impression would you like me to have?
00:56:01My family reads a paper.
00:56:05It's not nice what you print.
00:56:07I got a nice family.
00:56:10Sometime I'd like for you to meet them.
00:56:11There's no point in that unless they're the ones that almost killed Burroughs.
00:56:16Burroughs?
00:56:17Never beat up a reporter, they say.
00:56:19It's like killing a cop on duty, they say.
00:56:22Never drop girls in the river.
00:56:24Clothed or unclothed, they say.
00:56:26What have I got to do with reporters or girls?
00:56:28I'm in the cement and contracting business.
00:56:30Capone was in the insurance business.
00:56:32You got a sense of humor, friend.
00:56:34Why don't you laugh?
00:56:35Very funny.
00:56:36Tomorrow's newspaper will be even funnier.
00:56:43There.
00:56:44That's the Rienzi I like to see.
00:56:47This way you start shooting.
00:56:48What are you supposed to be, a little tin guard?
00:56:51You gonna save the world, a hero or something?
00:56:53There's only one kind of martyr, friend.
00:56:56Dead ones.
00:56:57Show me a martyr, I'll lay you four to one he winds up out of the money.
00:57:00My lawyer says I can sue you for this.
00:57:03Well?
00:57:05What you're trying to do has been tried before.
00:57:08Nobody could ever make it stick.
00:57:10In that case, you got nothing to worry about.
00:57:21Thanks for the lift.
00:57:22I can't say I enjoyed it.
00:57:24Cops, tax collectors, politicians, citizens committees, they all got an angle.
00:57:29What's yours? Name it. What do you want?
00:57:31My prizes await more than Pulitzer's.
00:57:33I know.
00:57:34I gotta look at Sally's fur coat.
00:57:42Wasn't that Hermit Schmidt just went in?
00:57:45Yeah.
00:57:57Okay.
00:57:59From the beginning.
00:58:00First, see the money.
00:58:03Said you'd pay for the story.
00:58:07Five grand.
00:58:12One thousand dollars.
00:58:14One thousand dollars.
00:58:14How far would that get me?
00:58:15Out of the country after you testify against Rianzi, yes or no?
00:58:19Well, he said you'd protect me.
00:58:21These days, accommodations in jail are hard to get.
00:58:24However, I'll use my influence.
00:58:28Well?
00:58:30All right.
00:58:32Get some sleep and on your way out have them send in a thousand dollars.
00:58:36In cash.
00:58:37In cash.
00:58:41Okay.
00:58:42You've got the floor.
00:58:47Where do you want me to start?
00:58:50Sally and Rianzi.
00:58:52Well, they liked each other.
00:58:54Liked?
00:58:56Well, you know.
00:58:57Did Rianzi pay her bills?
00:59:00What else?
00:59:01For everything.
00:59:03She was worth it.
00:59:05That's what I like.
00:59:06Family pride.
00:59:07Hey, Rianzi kicked in for the apartment.
00:59:09Her fur coat, some cheap jewelry.
00:59:11Maybe her car, too.
00:59:14But Sally bought forty thousand dollars worth of government bonds in her name.
00:59:19Rianzi pay for that?
00:59:22I guess so.
00:59:23You're a liar.
00:59:25Sally used the two hundred thousand dollars, Rianzi gave it a hold for him.
00:59:28What?
00:59:28Two hundred thousand dollars.
00:59:30Why would a guy part with that kind of scratch?
00:59:32Hot money.
00:59:33The city bank says your sister rented a safety deposit box.
00:59:35She gave it up a month ago.
00:59:36On the same day she moved out of her apartment.
00:59:38Why?
00:59:42All right, it's true.
00:59:43He gave her the money to keep for her.
00:59:45When he wanted it back, she was scared he'd make a break.
00:59:49She said as long as she kept the cash.
00:59:55It didn't work out that way.
01:00:01I don't feel so good.
01:00:10Have this tight. More coming.
01:00:12Miss Garrison wants to see you in the dome.
01:00:14Oh, stall her.
01:00:15Here's that thousand dollars you wanted.
01:00:16Uh-huh.
01:00:20Al, get your camera in there.
01:00:23Are you married, honey?
01:00:24Very.
01:00:27Get a hold of the governor.
01:00:28Ask him if he'll appoint a special grand jury to investigate the last election.
01:00:32Some of the names will come up.
01:00:34We supported a few for office.
01:00:36This paper has no political party.
01:00:37We support men for office.
01:00:38Some good, some bad.
01:00:40Mr. Hutchison, Mr. Willebrand's on here.
01:00:42If the governor won't act, get the chairman of the state senate committee.
01:00:47Yes?
01:00:48Hutchison.
01:00:51Oh, hold it.
01:00:52Now go ahead, Willebrand.
01:00:56Sally.
01:00:57What about her?
01:01:00When did she move to?
01:01:03What hotel?
01:01:04When did you find out Sally was dead?
01:01:06Well, I read about it in the paper.
01:01:09She was dead three days before the papers got it.
01:01:10Your mother says you left the house last Saturday and didn't come back.
01:01:13Sally was killed that same night.
01:01:14So what?
01:01:14I leave the house lots of times for weeks sometimes.
01:01:17But not to hide out.
01:01:18You were afraid of Rienzie.
01:01:19Why?
01:01:20You knew he was going to Sally's place last Saturday.
01:01:21I didn't even know where she lived.
01:01:23Hold it.
01:01:24Shoot.
01:01:27Sally was moved from her apartment on Maple Avenue
01:01:30to the inner city storage company four weeks ago.
01:01:34The Leroy Hotel, registered under the name of Bessie Schmidt.
01:01:38Never left her room.
01:01:39She had only two visitors.
01:01:41Your mother and you.
01:01:42You were there Saturday night.
01:01:45Well, I don't remember.
01:01:46Maybe I was.
01:01:46Why did you go there?
01:01:48Well, I, uh...
01:01:52She phoned me.
01:01:53Yeah, that's right.
01:01:54She phoned me.
01:01:55The desk clerk says you phoned her from the desk.
01:01:571.30 a.m.
01:01:58He could be wrong.
01:02:03Yeah.
01:02:04That's right.
01:02:06Somewhere out there, Rienzie's waiting for you.
01:02:10Either you tell the truth or I'll turn you loose.
01:02:12No money, no protection.
01:02:17Okay.
01:02:19Throw him out.
01:02:21Wait.
01:02:24Rienzie wanted his money.
01:02:27They couldn't find out where she was living.
01:02:29So you showed him.
01:02:30Why'd you do it?
01:02:31What did Rienzie promise?
01:02:32Well, he got me my job.
01:02:34I owed him some money.
01:02:36I couldn't pay him.
01:02:38He said the favor with squares.
01:02:41All you had to do was put the finger on your own sister.
01:02:43I didn't know what they were gonna do.
01:02:45I swear.
01:02:46Who went with you, Rienzie?
01:02:47I went along.
01:02:48So she wouldn't be afraid to let you in.
01:02:50They came later.
01:02:51All you did was open the door for them.
01:02:53That's all.
01:02:53Who's they?
01:02:54Lefty Smith, Whitey Franks, and Kid Jones.
01:02:57They belong to Rienzie?
01:02:58Except Whitey.
01:02:59He hide his arm.
01:02:59You let him in, then what?
01:03:01Well, they asked her for the money.
01:03:04She wouldn't give.
01:03:06So Whitey, he hid her.
01:03:09Then Lefty.
01:03:11She began to scream.
01:03:13She hollered for me to help her.
01:03:17And Whitey, he shut her up.
01:03:21I got scared.
01:03:23I couldn't watch what they were doing.
01:03:25I ran into the bathroom.
01:03:28I beat it out of there.
01:03:30That's all I know.
01:03:32Honest.
01:03:33Yes?
01:03:33Mrs. Garrison's still waiting.
01:03:35One left the other.
01:03:36I'll be right up.
01:03:39The word was out.
01:03:40Rienzie wanted me.
01:03:42They was afraid I was going to sing.
01:03:45If I stay for the trial, they'll get to me.
01:03:47You don't know them.
01:03:48In jail.
01:03:49No matter where or anywhere.
01:03:50If that's typed, have them sign it.
01:03:51You won't have time to get this all in the bulldog.
01:03:53We'll get the text of the statement in the second edition.
01:03:55Count it.
01:03:56Count it.
01:03:58And have this office fumigated.
01:04:09Mr. Hutchinson, about Lewis Schaefer.
01:04:12Oh, yes.
01:04:12On that information you requested.
01:04:14Uh-huh.
01:04:14Lewis Schaefer, age 42, born Baltimore.
01:04:17Only child of John and Harriet Schaefer of a chemical fortune.
01:04:21Was he ever married before?
01:04:22No, sir.
01:04:23Ever get pinched?
01:04:24Was he ever arrested?
01:04:26No record if he was.
01:04:27Alcoholic?
01:04:28Swindler?
01:04:30Maybe he's a fiend.
01:04:31You know, he looked like one.
01:04:33Check his army record.
01:04:35Maybe he's a spy.
01:04:36Got the silver star and the purple heart.
01:04:40That's a rotten report.
01:04:42Yes, sir.
01:04:43Eddie, two things.
01:04:45Rienzi started his libel suit.
01:04:47He was over the papers half an hour ago.
01:04:49Second.
01:04:50Judge McKay is going to hand down his decision tonight at nine.
01:04:53Because the libel suit?
01:04:54We'll be ready for him.
01:04:55And another thing.
01:04:56That one percent you were promised when we sold the paper.
01:04:59Well, Alice and Kitty have withdrawn it.
01:05:02What took them so long?
01:05:04You were wonderful today, baby.
01:05:06Mr. Blake and Mr. Green, this is Mr. Hutchinson.
01:05:08How do you do?
01:05:09How do you do?
01:05:10Our banking firm has offered to lend us the extra money to meet Mr. White's offer.
01:05:14Pending a few facts, of course.
01:05:16Of course.
01:05:17Try to remember Rienzi's exact words when he asked you to bring the three hoods to Sally's hotel room.
01:05:23If we can get that...
01:05:25We've got a warrant here for Herman Schmidt.
01:05:28We're not finished yet.
01:05:29We want him to sign the statement.
01:05:30It'll only take a few minutes.
01:05:31Come along, Schmidt.
01:05:32You've got no right to take statements.
01:05:33As long as it's not a police state we have.
01:05:35Sorry.
01:05:36She's a publicist.
01:05:40Whitey.
01:05:40Shut up.
01:05:42Take him out and back.
01:05:43Wait on.
01:05:44I didn't tell him anything.
01:05:49Whitey, I didn't tell him anything.
01:05:53And that doesn't include the higher cost of newsprint.
01:05:56How's that?
01:05:57It keeps going up.
01:05:59Right now it's $110 a ton.
01:06:00In 1942 it was $50 a ton.
01:06:03It takes talent to get the news, think it through, write it, and back it up with research.
01:06:07Without good reporting you haven't got a paper.
01:06:10Well, that extra 4% might make it a dangerous venture.
01:06:14A free presser, like a free life, is always in danger.
01:06:18I don't want to be a slave.
01:06:19I want to be a slave.
01:06:20I want to be a slave.
01:06:20That's why I hate out of you.
01:06:21Because I know you, somebody.
01:06:22You can't listen.
01:06:23You've got to pay me.
01:06:24You're not just a man.
01:06:25Why do you believe me?
01:06:26You're not just a man.
01:06:27You're not just a man.
01:06:27I got money, I got it.
01:06:28Let's go.
01:07:04I like the proposition.
01:07:06Barring unforeseen complications, I think we...
01:07:08Ed, it's for you.
01:07:11Yeah?
01:07:37Give him a description of what that so-called police look like.
01:07:40Yes, Captain.
01:07:43When's the press gonna grow up and stop playing detective?
01:07:46Can't you tell the difference between a hoodlum and a cop?
01:07:48In this town?
01:07:50Yes, sir.
01:07:51Captain.
01:07:55Is that the address?
01:07:57I'll see the Mr. Garrison gets home all right.
01:08:00What about Schmidt's confession?
01:08:01Do we run anyway?
01:08:02Without his signature?
01:08:03The judge would surely close us down.
01:08:08You made a mess of it.
01:08:10I told you I don't want no violence.
01:08:13Not yet, anyway.
01:08:15There's a time and place for this kind of thing.
01:08:17There's a stupid...
01:08:21No.
01:08:22No, run away from what?
01:08:25I'll talk to them myself, personally.
01:08:28Get them down here to my office, all of them.
01:08:31Sure, now, right now.
01:08:33You, too.
01:08:35Find Sally's old lady, Mrs. Schmidt.
01:08:37Bring her in.
01:08:37I want to talk to her.
01:08:38And this time, don't foul it up.
01:08:45No paper ever did a better, faster, more thorough job.
01:08:49All we needed was this one bit of evidence.
01:08:52And we had it.
01:08:54Why do you think we hung the whole thing on Rienzi's case?
01:08:58Because we were sentimental about a dead girl in a mink coat?
01:09:01No.
01:09:02No, we had something big.
01:09:04Big enough to save our necks.
01:09:07Rienzi in the liquor business, the financial department, dug that one up.
01:09:10Distributed for two of the biggest name brands.
01:09:13Rienzi's brother runs a wire service for race results, transportation.
01:09:18Loan agency for bookies, real estate, hotels, nightclubs.
01:09:22Slot machines, etc, etc.
01:09:25Years ago, my husband tried to do a story like this on a man just like Rienzi.
01:09:31No, I figured with a story like this to tell, they'd never close this town.
01:09:35Well.
01:09:36Well, we showed him how a real newspaper can function.
01:09:41And now, we're licked, baby.
01:09:45Put a head on this, will you?
01:09:49My husband always said,
01:09:51it was a worthwhile fight, didn't matter who won.
01:09:55Some good was sure to come out of it.
01:09:59That Rienzi's wine?
01:10:01Uh-huh.
01:10:03Pretty good.
01:10:04The best.
01:10:07Well, you're quite a girl.
01:10:09Yeah.
01:10:11If they made them different in your day.
01:10:13Yeah.
01:10:14More durable.
01:10:16More pliable.
01:10:18Girls these days have stuff, but they're brittle.
01:10:22Break more easily.
01:10:24Don't roll with the punches.
01:10:26Plenty of gall and no guts.
01:10:30Meaning Nora?
01:10:32Meaning Nora.
01:10:34Well, now be a respectful silence while we feel sorry for ourselves.
01:10:39Well, she had no right to walk out on me.
01:10:41Why not?
01:10:42Because.
01:10:43Because it inconvenienced you.
01:10:45Because she's my wife.
01:10:47You wouldn't have had a wife of that newspaper.
01:10:50It had beautiful legs.
01:10:53Sure, sure.
01:10:55But you never walked out on John.
01:10:57Who said so?
01:10:58Twice.
01:10:59You must have had a pretty good reason.
01:11:01The best.
01:11:02A bride always likes to think she's indispensable.
01:11:06Even in the morning.
01:11:08I woke up and he was gone.
01:11:10Gone back to the paper.
01:11:12To do the Lusitania story.
01:11:14I walked out.
01:11:15Ah, but you came back.
01:11:17Two days later.
01:11:18He didn't even know I'd been gone.
01:11:21But he loved you.
01:11:23Passionately.
01:11:24Between editions.
01:11:25He had time to change the face of journalism.
01:11:29Fight for reform.
01:11:31Crusade for a thousand lost causes.
01:11:33But he had no time for his family.
01:11:35So I took my two daughters and left this big, beautiful mausoleum.
01:11:39Why did you come back?
01:11:40Well, we needed each other.
01:11:43Was I who did the adjusting, though.
01:11:46Wasn't Alice or Kitty or John.
01:11:49He needed a son to carry on the paper.
01:11:52And they needed a father to love, not a bulldog edition.
01:11:57Enter me.
01:11:58Spit an image.
01:12:01And what did you want?
01:12:03To be useful.
01:12:05Well.
01:12:07To newspapers.
01:12:09To editors like you.
01:12:11A publisher's delight.
01:12:17Don't blame Nora.
01:12:19Unless she wants to come back, it won't work.
01:12:23If she stays away...
01:12:25I can look for a newspaper with nice legs.
01:12:29Court convenes in about half an hour.
01:12:30Are you going to be there?
01:12:31Maybe.
01:12:36Will you marry me?
01:12:37You're too old.
01:12:41You go through old lady Schmidt's house?
01:12:43Off to bottom.
01:12:44Well?
01:12:45Nothing.
01:12:46Mrs. Schmidt, you find her?
01:12:48Not yet.
01:12:48Got anybody at the house waiting for her?
01:12:50Inside and out.
01:12:51Don't bring her here.
01:12:53I don't want none of your boys around here.
01:12:56Now or any time.
01:12:57You understand?
01:12:57I understand.
01:12:58And don't phone me.
01:13:00Here or at home.
01:13:01Any of you.
01:13:02Would it be better if we left town for a while?
01:13:04No.
01:13:04We stay put.
01:13:05Suppose the grand jury indicts.
01:13:07Leave them indicts.
01:13:08Larry will take care of things.
01:13:09I'll try.
01:13:11That's right.
01:13:11You'll try.
01:13:13I don't want no panic.
01:13:15If there's an investigation.
01:13:17Or even a trial.
01:13:19We've been through this kind of thing before.
01:13:21We're still in business.
01:13:22A story's printed in a paper.
01:13:24So what?
01:13:26Tomorrow it's old news.
01:13:27Next week people forget.
01:13:28But if they keep printing?
01:13:29They won't.
01:13:30But if they keep us in the news until the trial.
01:13:32If they heat up the public.
01:13:33You take care of your end.
01:13:34I'll handle the paper.
01:13:36Hutchison won't handle.
01:13:37He's got nothing.
01:13:38With Schmidt out of the way, what's he got?
01:13:40That won't stop him.
01:13:41And he won't stop us.
01:13:44Tomorrow he won't even have a paper.
01:13:46Courts will take it away from him.
01:13:48And if they don't, we'll take him away from the paper.
01:13:53Maybe they all need an example.
01:13:56Yeah, that's what they need.
01:14:03You better find Hutchison.
01:14:05You want to see him?
01:14:06No.
01:14:08No.
01:14:26Please rise.
01:14:37His honor, the surrogate.
01:14:39Please be seated.
01:14:46I'm a little bit worried about this.
01:14:48Don't let you get any idea.
01:14:50There's a need on my mind.
01:14:51About Sampley.
01:14:52There's a need on my mind.
01:14:53About Sampley.
01:14:55Regarding the sale and purchase of the publishing company,
01:14:59herein referred to as the day.
01:15:04I've made a careful study of the existing contract
01:15:07between the heirs of the late John Garrison
01:15:10and Lawrence White Publishing Enterprises.
01:15:13I can see no reason why this contract should not be enforced.
01:15:17Therefore, unless further evidence or argument
01:15:21is presented to alter my judgment,
01:15:23the court is prepared to render its decision.
01:15:27Mrs. Garrison, do you have anything to add?
01:15:31Yes, sir.
01:15:33No statement, Your Honor.
01:15:36Your Honor!
01:15:38Before you decide, may I say something?
01:15:40If, Your Honor, please.
01:15:41I don't think this gentleman is one of the heirs.
01:15:43He's not here as amicus curiae,
01:15:45and I'm positive he's not here in the interests of Mr. White.
01:15:49Whom does he presume to represent?
01:15:51Well, sir, I'm trying to save a newspaper.
01:15:55Which is not yours in the first place.
01:15:57That is true.
01:15:58The day consists of a big building.
01:16:00I don't own that.
01:16:02It also consists of typewriters, teletypes, presses,
01:16:05newsprint, ink, and desks.
01:16:07I don't own those either.
01:16:08But this newspaper is more than that.
01:16:10We're all aware of what a newspaper consists.
01:16:13I'm not so sure about that.
01:16:16The day is more than a building.
01:16:19It's people.
01:16:21It's 1,500 men and women
01:16:23whose skill, heart, brains, and experience
01:16:25make a great newspaper possible.
01:16:27We don't own one stick of furniture in this company.
01:16:30But we, along with the 290,000 people who read this paper,
01:16:34have a vital interest in whether it lives or dies.
01:16:37This is highly irregular procedure.
01:16:39So is the murder of a newspaper.
01:16:41Aren't you carrying this a bit too far?
01:16:43The death of a newspaper sometimes has far-reaching effects.
01:16:45Meaning your own pocketbook in this case.
01:16:47In this case, meaning some unfinished business called Rianzi.
01:16:50If you read the day, you'd know what I mean.
01:16:51I don't care to discuss, Mr. Rianzi.
01:16:54This newspaper does.
01:16:55This doesn't concern us here today.
01:16:57It concerns the public every day.
01:16:59A newspaper, as Mr. White will agree,
01:17:00is published first, last, and always in the public interest.
01:17:04Yours is not the only newspaper in town.
01:17:06Right now, it's the only newspaper willing to expose Rianzi.
01:17:09Your Honor, an honest, fearless press
01:17:11is the public's first protection against gangsterism,
01:17:14local or international.
01:17:17Mr. Hutchinson,
01:17:18though a surrogate's court is informal,
01:17:21there are certain rules and procedure.
01:17:23May we have your decision now, sir?
01:17:26As one of your 290,000 readers, Mr. Hutchinson,
01:17:31I rule that you may proceed with your statement.
01:17:35Thank you, sir.
01:17:37But let's try to keep this from becoming a personal matter, please.
01:17:41Now, a newspaper is a very personal matter, sir.
01:17:44Ask the people who let us in their homes.
01:17:46I've read the day for more than 35 years.
01:17:50Before that, I sold it in the streets.
01:17:54However, here we're only concerned with the legal aspect
01:17:57of the sale and purchase of property.
01:17:58What happens after Mr. White takes possession
01:18:01is outside of the jurisdiction of this court.
01:18:04Well, in whose jurisdiction is it?
01:18:06Just a moment.
01:18:07Since when is it immoral for someone
01:18:09to legally purchase a newspaper?
01:18:11I don't care if Mr. White buys and runs
01:18:14two papers or 20 papers or 100 papers.
01:18:16Some of the best newspapers in this country
01:18:18are part of a chain.
01:18:19But I do care when he buys a newspaper
01:18:21to put it out of business.
01:18:25Because without competition,
01:18:26there could be no freedom of the press.
01:18:28And I'm talking about free enterprise, Your Honor.
01:18:31The right of the public to a marketplace
01:18:32of ideas, news, and opinions.
01:18:35Not of one man's, or one leader's,
01:18:38or even one government's.
01:18:40I...
01:18:44Well, I guess that's all I have to say.
01:18:49The existing contract is valid.
01:18:52Made in good faith.
01:18:55As of tomorrow, November 14th,
01:18:58the Lawrence White publications
01:18:59will assume control of the day.
01:19:02Court assured.
01:19:08Well, thanks for trying.
01:19:11It'll be another day.
01:19:13Goodbye, Ed.
01:19:19Here I am, Mr. Hutchison.
01:19:21I have the city desk.
01:19:23Frank, here it is.
01:19:25Lead-off for the morning edition.
01:19:28The day after 47 years of daily publication
01:19:31was sold last night.
01:19:33Ed, get back here as quick as you can.
01:19:35You will give it to me over the phone.
01:19:41I'll be right there.
01:19:42Five minutes.
01:19:45Would you care the state
01:19:46who killed your daughter, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:19:48Was it Rianzi?
01:19:49Some of his men.
01:19:51I come to see boss.
01:19:54Did you know your son was working for Rianzi?
01:19:57Was that Hutch?
01:20:00Do you think we ought to call the police?
01:20:03I'm worried about her.
01:20:09I think it's been sold.
01:20:11I had a new lead.
01:20:41Coffee.
01:20:43Have you been to your home yet, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:20:47Where have you been?
01:20:49I speak to boss.
01:20:57Mrs. Schmidt wandered in on her own.
01:21:00Looking for you, won't talk to anyone else.
01:21:03Mrs. Schmidt, the boss.
01:21:06How do you do, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:21:08Your name, please?
01:21:09Hutchison.
01:21:11I am mother to Besson.
01:21:15Oh, about your son.
01:21:17I'm very sorry.
01:21:19I do not comfort that.
01:21:28Sit down, please.
01:21:32Here.
01:21:35My Bessie,
01:21:36she comes to me and she says,
01:21:39here, Mama,
01:21:41you keep this.
01:21:42If something happens to me,
01:21:46you do not have to worry.
01:21:49This is Bessie's diary?
01:21:51She says what happens to her
01:21:53and this Mr. Rianzi.
01:22:01Yes, sir?
01:22:02Get Captain Finley over here right away
01:22:04and tell her when we're getting out the final edition, as usual.
01:22:08Yes, sir.
01:22:12Why didn't you go to the police, Mrs. Schmidt?
01:22:15Police?
01:22:16I do not know police.
01:22:18I know newspaper.
01:22:21This newspaper.
01:22:23For 31 years, I know this paper.
01:22:26I come to America.
01:22:28I wish to be good citizen.
01:22:31How to do this?
01:22:32From newspaper.
01:22:34It shows me how to read and write.
01:22:37My Bessie dies.
01:22:39You do not say bad things of her.
01:22:42You do not show bad pictures of her.
01:22:46You try to find
01:22:48who hurt my Bessie.
01:22:52You do not say bad things of her.
01:22:53I help.
01:22:55I think what to do.
01:22:57I go on subway.
01:22:58I ride all day.
01:23:00I think.
01:23:02I come.
01:23:05By doing this,
01:23:06you may be in danger.
01:23:07Like your son.
01:23:09You are not afraid.
01:23:12Your paper is not afraid.
01:23:15I am not afraid.
01:23:29I am not afraid.
01:23:30Hello, Mrs. Hutchison.
01:23:31Or is it Mrs. Schaefer now?
01:23:33Where is he?
01:23:34In the press room.
01:23:38Has he lost the paper?
01:23:39Yes.
01:23:41What is he going to do?
01:23:42Get out the last edition.
01:23:44And it ought to be quite a paper.
01:23:46But then what?
01:23:48Look for another job, I guess.
01:23:50He's it, Mrs. Schaefer.
01:23:58Hello, Alex.
01:23:59This is it, huh?
01:24:00Yeah. Looks like the last one.
01:24:17Hold on, Mr. Hutchison.
01:24:26Yes?
01:24:28Who?
01:24:31Put the call through.
01:24:40Hutchison?
01:24:41Hello, baby.
01:24:44How am I feeling?
01:24:46I hear Mrs. Schmidt come in to see you.
01:24:48That's right.
01:24:50That's right.
01:24:52There's some loose cash here belongs to you.
01:24:55$200,000 worth.
01:24:58And there's something else, too.
01:25:04What diary?
01:25:07Who's gonna believe what a little tramp writes to herself?
01:25:11Wait a minute. Don't hang up.
01:25:13Here's some advice for your friend.
01:25:15Don't press your luck.
01:25:17Lay off of me.
01:25:18Don't print that story.
01:25:20What's that supposed to be?
01:25:22An order?
01:25:23If not tonight, then tomorrow.
01:25:25Maybe next week.
01:25:25Maybe next year.
01:25:27But sooner or later, you'll catch it.
01:25:29Listen to me.
01:25:31Print that story, you're a dead man.
01:25:33It's not just me anymore.
01:25:35You'd have to stop every newspaper in the country now.
01:25:38And you're not big enough at that job.
01:25:39People like you've tried it before.
01:25:41With bullets, prison, censorship.
01:25:43But as long as even one newspaper will print the truth, you're finished.
01:25:47Don't give me that fancy double talk.
01:25:49I want an answer.
01:25:49Yes or no?
01:25:52No.
01:26:04Yes or no?
01:26:10Hey.
01:26:12Purchison?
01:26:13That noise, what's that racket?
01:26:15That's the press, baby.
01:26:17The press.
01:26:18And there's nothing you can do about it.
01:26:20Nothing.
01:26:50No, no, no, no, no.
01:26:54No, no, no.
01:26:56No, no.
01:26:58No, no, no, no.
01:27:02I'm a sc dealing with Kansas City, k.
01:27:03Yeah, neither did a weapon.
01:27:03No, no, no.
01:27:03No, no, no.