Scandal Sheet

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Scandal Sheet

1952,

1h 22m,

Crime/

Drama

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6 Reviews

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Editor Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) presides over a trashy but financially successful tabloid newspaper in New York City. With his hotshot crime reporter, Steve McCleary (John Derek), and feature writer, Julie Allison (Donna Reed), Chapman attends a Lonely Hearts Club publicity stunt sponsored by the paper, where he's shocked to run into Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), the wife he abandoned two decades before. Their argument takes a violent turn that might ruin everything Chapman has.

Terry Staunton

Radio Times

Sep 6, 2024

3/5

The movie makes astute observations about the ever-changing face of news media during the energetic heyday of print journalism.

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Dec 5, 2009

... directed by Phil Karlson with a suitably sleazy atmosphere of journalistic cynicism.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Oct 30, 2009

As directed by "B" level film noir expert Phil Karlson, Scandal Sheet is really quite good.

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Aug 9, 2007

Vividly told thriller.

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies

Dec 6, 2005

4.5/5

Its only flaw is a mildy silly plot contrivance that allows the stunning finale, but other than that it's just about perfect.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Feb 16, 2005

B+

Hard-hitting film noir thriller.

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George W

Mar 16, 2019

The film grabs you and won't let go. This was a true scandal sheet and we see the reporters making up "scandalous" news to inflate sales. Women were mostly passed over and the cliches of the time were repeated and reinforced. We see "weak" women falling into the arms of their "hero" men. But all in all, this is a strong movie with a good cast. It holds together and is engrossing.

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Abraham M

Sep 11, 2018

Not bad. Great cast. The pacing was a little slow for me.

Leia P

Sep 26, 2017

Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) is a hot shot newspaper manager with Steve McCleary (John Derek) playing as his best reporter. And as he begins the top of his game selling more newspapers than any of his competitors an unexpected turn of events accidentally kills his wife he abandoned in exchange for a career. with his best reporter closing him on it.

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Phil Karlson

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Broderick Crawford

Mark Chapman

Donna Reed

Julie Allison

John Derek

Steve McCleary

Rosemary DeCamp

Charlotte Grant

Henry O'Neill

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Synopsis

Editor Mark Chapman (Broderick Crawford) presides over a trashy but financially successful tabloid newspaper in New York City. With his hotshot crime reporter, Steve McCleary (John Derek), and feature writer, Julie Allison (Donna Reed), Chapman attends a Lonely Hearts Club publicity stunt sponsored by the paper, where he's shocked to run into Charlotte (Rosemary DeCamp), the wife he abandoned two decades before. Their argument takes a violent turn that might ruin everything Chapman has.

Director: Phil Karlson
Producer: Edward Small
Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller, Eugene Ling, James Poe, Ted Sherdeman
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Edward Small Productions, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 16, 1952, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Oct 27, 2009
Runtime: 1h 22m
Sound Mix: Mono

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