New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposΓ© on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.

Humphrey Bogart
as Ed Hutcheson

Ethel Barrymore
as Margaret Garrison

Kim Hunter
as Nora Hutcheson

Ed Begley
as Frank Allen

Warren Stevens
as George Burrows

Paul Stewart
as Harry Thompson

Martin Gabel
as Tomas Rienzi

Joe De Santis
as Herman Schmidt

Joyce Mackenzie
as Katherine Garrison Geary

Audrey Christie
as Mrs. Willebrandt
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Humphrey Bogart ("Ed") is superb in this tale of a newspaper editor whose paper is being sold by it's owners. With all looking for their next job, he must try to galvanise his team into an investigation of local mafia kingpin "Rienzi" after one of their number is killed. Occasionally cluttered by a ...