Main Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea
Release Year: 1950
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (Dan Duryea), who is in the pocket of a gangster (Howard da Silva). When he's fired by a big-city paper, the newsman buys an interest in a small-town weekly. It is while thus occupying that man reforms, devoting himself to clearing a black woman falsely accused of murder. Gale Storm co-stars as Duryea's assistant, who helps him expose an intricate and insidious conspiracy of silence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Dave Milton - Art Director, Gordon Wiles - Art Director, Cy Raker Endfield - Director, Victor Heerman - Editor, David Rose - Composer (Music Score), Irving Friedman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Tom Tuttle - Makeup, Stanley Cortez - Cinematographer, Hal E. Chester - Producer, Raymond Boltz - Set Designer, Cy Raker Endfield - Screenwriter, Henry Blankfort - Screenwriter, Craig Rice - Short Story Author
Newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) loses his job at a big paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from and gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm), who immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again.
