I don't like him. I'll think of a reason later.

Deadline - USA (1952)

Suggested by Maaike on facebook.

An embattled press, political corruption and men not caring about the opinions of women (both the villain of the piece - who is undone by the mother of his murdered bit on the side, but also Bogie himself who is typically bullish in regards to his ex-wife who has moved on from one male authority to another by getting engaged to her new boss) make this seem very contemporary but is is very easy as a modern viewer to think "look how prescient this past fiction is, look how clever they were to guess the future" instead of admiring how much they were capturing the mood of the time. Change happens but so much remains the same.

Beneath the crusading feel goodery fantasy elements to this story there is a real palpable sense of time and place (as long as we are just looking at a very narrow straight white bit of America anyway), the newsroom feels lived in, a lot of the various sub-plots end up being connected but to begin with there is an interesting sense of chaos to the film and not everything is resolved completely to the heroes interests by the end.

A pacy, fun lesser known Bogart film with some bite still left in it.