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It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy boy prepare to put the next day's paper to bed. Suddenly two stories come over the wire. In the first, a young girl has gotten lost in the city's storm drains, and her life is endangered when a terrible storm erupts and the sewers begin to fill with runoff. In the second, the grandson of the writer is among a team of missing Air Force pilots who were attempting to set a record flying from Hawaii to Washington, DC. This suspenseful, newsroom drama chronicles the ways in which these situations affect the workers as they try to get the paper out on time. ~ Sandra Brennan, RoviCast
James Bell - Ben Quinn; Whitney Blake - Peggy Gatlin; Joe Flynn - Hy Shapiro; Louise Lorimer - Bernice Valentine; John Nolan - Ron Danton; Dick Whittinghill - Fred Kendall; Richard Bakalyan - Carl Thompson; William Conrad - Jim Bathgate; David Nelson - Earl Collins; Jack Webb - Sam Gatlin; Nancy Valentine - Jan PriceCredit
Field M. Gray - Art Director, Gibson Holley - Art Director, Jack Webb - Director, Robert M. Leeds - Editor, Ray Heindorf - Composer (Music Score), William Bowers - Songwriter, Don Ralke - Songwriter, Edward Colman - Cinematographer, Jack Webb - Producer, William Bowers - Screenwriter| (500) Days of Summer (2009 Film), '70s Soul Jam, Vol. 3 (2002 Film) | |
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| Directed by | Jack Webb |
| Produced by | Jack Webb |
| Written by | William Bowers |
| Starring | Jack Webb William Conrad Whitney Blake |
| Music by | Ray Heindorf |
| Cinematography | Edward Colman |
| Editing by | Robert M. Leeds |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
-30- (released as Deadline Midnight in the UK) is a 1959 film starring Jack Webb and William Conrad as night managing editor and night city editor, respectively, of a fictional Los Angeles newspaper.[1]
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Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and leaves early the next morning, having put together a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During the active day in the life of a big city newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child named Billy. A reporter's grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York. A child is lost in the LA sewers (Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture: "Children Stay Out of These"). And copy boy Earl Collins considers quitting after failing to properly deliver a bet by city editor Jim Bathgate on the sex of children being born to a famous actress. A downpour is occurring during basically the whole movie.
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Further information: -30-
"-30-" is used to signify "the end" or "over and out". It has obscure and unclear origins, but is traditional in the journalism field and is still used to indicate the end of transmitted news stories and press releases and can frequently be found in formal corporate documents posted on websites and delivered electronically or via print.
Cast
- Jack Webb as Sam Gatlin
- William Conrad as Jim Bathgate
- David Nelson as Earl Collins
- Whitney Blake as Peggy Gatlin
- James Bell as Ben Quinn
- Joe Flynn as Hy Shapiro
- Richard Bakalyan as Carl Thompson
- Dick Whittinghill as Fred Kendall
- John Nolan as Ron Danton
- Richard Deacon as Chapman
- Howard Culver as Walt Ashton
- Fay McKenzie as Mrs. Jason
- Ronnie Dapo as Billy
- William Tracy as Unnamed Writer
- Phil Gordon as Unnamed Character
- Mark Scott as Unnamed Character
- Olan Soule as Unnamed Character
- Dick Cathcart as Unnamed Character
- Louise Lorimer as Lady Wilson
- Nancy Valentine as Jan Price
- Marshall Kent as Mr. Jason
- Alan Reynolds as Newspaper Employee
- Donna Sue Needham as Lucille Greghauser
- John Truax as Newspaper Employee
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External links
- -30- at the Internet Movie Database
- -30- at AllRovi
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