
Deadline - U.S.A.(1952)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.


“A GIRL WITH THE WORLD AT HER FEET...and the guy who stepped on her toes!”
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Fred MacMurray
Ralph Houston

Frances Farmer
Vina Swain

Charles Ruggles
Tod Swain

Lloyd Nolan
Charles Gillette

Fay Holden
Mrs. Swain

Horace McMahon
Beak McArdle

Ralph Morgan
Horace Mitchell
Edward H. Robins
Colonel Bogardus

Harlan Briggs
Springer

Willard Robertson
Mr. Franklin
Exclusive is a drama, crime film released in 1937 exploring themes of newspaper, materialism, woman reporter, angry mob, newspaper reporter, yellow-journalism. Directed by Alexander Hall, it stars Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Charles Ruggles. Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.
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