Watch The Underworld Story (1950) Free Online

Release Date: 1950   Duration: 91 min

Cast: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Film noir

The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, and Gale Storm. Howard Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted. The newspaperman played by Duryea is similar in tone to Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole. This B-movie was shot in black and white by director Cy Endfield and...  MORE

The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, and Gale Storm. Howard Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted. The newspaperman played by Duryea is similar in tone to Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole. This B-movie was shot in black and white by director Cy Endfield and cinematographer Stanley Cortez. When newspaper reporter Mike Reese loses his job at a big city paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from a 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, who 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. When a local black woman is suspected, Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again. The film is notable for the pejorative use of the word "nigger", though this is clearly dubbed, not what was originally filmed. LESS