Sam Fuller shot this in 14 days with his own money just to spite a studio. That energy? EVERY frame.
In New York's 1880s 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.
Direction
Fuller's kinetic camera makes newsprint feel like warfare.
Production
Massive 1880s Park Row set built in 14 days. Insane.
Writing
Dialogue crackles like a telegraph on amphetamines.
Director
Samuel Fuller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fuller financed this himself after Darryl Zanuck rejected the pitch. The opening dedication 'To the Press' is a middle finger to Fox.
Fuller started as a New York crime reporter at 12—this is basically his childhood revenge fantasy. The Mergenthaler character? Real guy who revolutionized printing.
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