Park Row

I love Sam Fuller movies. I was hoping that this would be an 1880's take on the media like the cynically brilliant Billy Wilder film Ace in the Hole was to 1950's news. But it wasn't.

And by the time, I finally started getting into it, it was over - the movie is only an hour and 23 minutes long.

So I guess I was a little disappointed -- I thought a Sam Fuller movie about the newspaper business in 1880's New York would be a definite slam dunk for me. Hell, look at that poster! She had blood in her veins ... he had ink and guts!

But every Sam Fuller movie is worthwhile to one degree or another and I'm glad that I watched this and feel like maybe I'm kind of a jerk for not liking it more than I did.

I have issues.

Directed by Sam Fuller
1952
TCM