Park Row Film 1952

With gene evans mary welch bela kovacs herbert heyes.

Park row film 1952. Park row is driven by fuller s love of old school journalism ideals and newspaper wars. Park row 1952 in his new column telegraph film critic tim robey picks out an underappreciated movie that is indisputably worth two hours of your time. It was written directed produced and financed by samuel fuller himself a new york reporter prior to turning to filmmaking it was his favorite film though it did not do well at the box office. No park row is a tribute to what newspapers should always strive to be.

This independent paper doesn t sit well with the big guys who do everything they can to get the globe out of the market. The film channels its patriotic trumpet call into a celebration of the fourth. But park row is by no means a musty old b movie suitable only for scholars and enthusiasts. Samuel fuller s 1952 tribute to the spirit and vibrancy of american print journalism during the late 1880s is on one level a mischievous riposte to the challenges which at the time were being posed to the very concept of free speech in the 1950s by the spectre of mccarthyism.

A snapshot of what 1882 looked like from the vantage point of 1952. I d like to argue that it serves as a double time capsule. Park row 1952 out of 4 extremely powerful if bizarre film about the globe a new newspaper on park row that has an editor gene evans who wants the truth and nothing but the truth printed. The two newspapers become enemies and the star s ruthless heiress charity hackett decides to eliminate the competition.

Dvd review park row 1952. Directed by samuel fuller. All of which is as relevant in 1952 when the movie was made when there were 1772 daily newspapers as it. It s fresh and vibrant in a way that few movies are.

Park row is a 1952 american film noir drama film starring gene evans as a new york city journalist who founds a new type of newspaper and mary welch as the established publisher who opposes him.