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Underworld Story is a 1950 movie, shot in film noir style, starring Dan Duryea. Howard Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted. This newspaperman Duryea plays is similar in tone (a reporter that does anything for publicity for himself regardless of ethics) to Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole
. This B-movie was shot in black and white by director Cy Endfield and cinematographer Stanley Cortez.

Newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) looses his job at a big paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from and gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm) and she immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again.

Main cast

Dan Duryea
as Mike Reese
Herbert Marshall
as E.J. Stanton
Gale Storm
as Catherine Harris
Howard Da Silva
as Carl Durham

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