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Tabloid journalist Mike Reese (Dan Duryea) is fired from his job when a story he runs is blamed for a gangland assassination on the steps of City Hall.
The Underworld Story (1950) is a journalism and media murder family intrigue race relations noir starring Dan Duryea, and directed by Cy Endfield. Also starring Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva and Michael O'Shea with Da Silva playing the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted.
Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham.
The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva and Michael O'Shea. Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted.
The Underworld Story, 1950 – Heart Of Noir. 3rd tier. Editor's Ranking. 4.0. Average User Rating. Your Watchlist. 1950. USA. 91 minutes. United Artists, FilmCraft Productions. Cast + Crew. Cy Endfield. Bernard W. Burton, Hal E. Chester. Henry Blankfort, Cy Endfield. Craig Rice (original story) Stanley Cortez. David Rose. Dave Milton, Gordon Wiles.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (Dan Duryea), who is in the pocket of a gangster (Howard da Silva). When he's fired by a big-city paper, the newsman buys an interest in a small-town weekly.
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
