Park Row

IMDb link: 0045009
IMDb rating: 7.2 (2,171 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Gene Evans, George O'Hanlon, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs, Herbert Heyes, Tina Pine and others

Release date: 7 May 1953
Release year: 1952
Runtime: 83 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: 1880s, new york city, yellow journalism, dedication, brooklyn bridge, heiress, liberty fund, statue of liberty, france, immigrant

Plot:

In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. Despite the fact he rather fancies the lady the newsman perseveres with the help of the first Linotype machine, invented on his premises, while also giving a hand with getting the Statue of Liberty erected.

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