Deadline – U.S.A. (Die Maske runter!)

Deadline – U.S.A. (Die Maske runter!) | USA 1952 | S+D: Richard Brooks | C: Milton Krasner | M: Cyril Mockridge | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens | 87 min | original version | Ed Hutcheson, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "The Day", which is up for sale, sees the independence of reporting in danger and does everything to publish an exposé about a gangster's machinations in time. A role made for Bogart: Ed Hutcheson possesses integrity, professionalism, fairness and social conscience. The gangster story is hardly of interest to the author and director Richard Brooks; he gives the newspaper a tactile, physical presence, not only in the ubiquitous clatter of typewriters, but especially in the descent into the depths of the typesetting room and printing works through the living machinery.