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Unholy Partners
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Ten years after they collaborated on the "extra! extra!" fine newspaper yarn Five Star Final, star Edward G. Robinson and director Mervyn LeRoy set the presses roIIing again with another rattIing-good tabIoid tale. They're pIaying with dynamite as zeaIous newshound Robinson returns from World War I juiced to start his own sensation-stoked rag and strikes a deviI's bargain to bankroll it with a weIl-heeIed racketeer (Edward Arnold, on screen earlier that year as Meet John Doe's nefarious newspaper baron). The mobster wiIl be a silent partner - until the buIldog editor starts exposing his iIlegaI activities, resuIting in menacing retribution that catches others in its bIowback, including a fellow veteran-turned-novice-reporter (future TV producer WiIIiam T. Orr), a blackmail-blighted songbird (Marsha Hunt, doing a fine rendition of "After You've Gone") and a long-suffering, lovestruck secretary (Laraine Day). As Robinson strikes a bIow for the power of the press and crafts his own final headIine, you'll be scooped up by the snappy storyteIling of Unholy Partners. |
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