Edward G. Robinson
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Unholy Partners is a 1941 American crime drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold and Marsha Hunt. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Unholy Partners: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt. A tough, ambitious newspaperman starts a new tabloid in 1919 New York, with a crooked big-time gambler as a partner.
- (549)
- Drama
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1941-11
Unholy Partners - Long-standing Warner Brothers star Edward G. Robinson agreed to take the lead in this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production as a favor to director Mervyn LeRoy, who had put him on the road to stardom a decade earlier in the gangster classic Little Caesar (1931).
- Mervyn Leroy, Al Shenberg
- Edward G. Robinson
A crusading newsman (Edward G. Robinson) starts up a tabloid with a gangster (Edward Arnold) as his 50-50 partner. This picture works on every level: direction, performances, story, you name it...
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- Mervyn Leroy
- Crime, Drama
- Edward G. Robinson
Sep 1, 2013 · UNHOLY PARTNERS (1941 MGM) Starring Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, William T. Orr, Don Beddoe, Walter Kingsford. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Having successfully started a tabloid for soldiers during his World War One service, Robinson returns to civilian life in 1919 with the intent of running a similar paper in his ...
Unholy Partners takes place after World War I, when a newspaper man, Bruce Corey (Robinson) returns from the conflict - but not to his old reporting job. He wants to start a different kind of newspaper -- more of a tabloid, something people can fold over and read easily in the subway.
Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. For want of other financing, he takes on as silent partner Merrill Lambert, gangland gambling kingpin. Thus is born the New York Mercury.
