Does this film belong to the genre: semi-documentary? Yeah. What if there was pure water noir here that everyone was talking about... then? Of course not. As a director’s version on a real story – there is a grain of sanity, but the general framework of the script is a lot of naive and inconsistencies. Watching this film is interesting only for one reason, here is not a characteristic role of a very strong actor of the time James Stewart, he plays in a more intonationally pedal manner of inflexibility and inexorability than all the roles before.
And there's another big role here, Lee J. Cobb as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.
It should be noted that the director Henry Hathaway shot in the same accentuating formulation of noir ... the film “House on 92nd Street” (thriller of 1945) and there is also preserved the scheme of presentation of material and compositionally and climaxively.
You can watch the movie. It will appeal to 1940 film lovers.
- 1950s.