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



Broderick Crawford
Mark Chapman

Donna Reed
Julie Allison

John Derek
Steve McCleary

Rosemary DeCamp
Charlotte Grant

Henry O'Neill
Charlie Barnes

Harry Morgan
Biddle

James Millican
Lieutenant Davis

Griff Barnett
Elroy Hacker

Jonathan Hale
Frank Madison

Jay Adler
Bailey (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet is a crime, thriller film released in 1952 exploring themes of newspaper, lonely hearts ad, film noir. Directed by Phil Karlson, it stars Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek. A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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