Rating of
3.5/4
Unknown - wrote on 02/23/14
Writer/Director Wilder takes his terrific noir sensibilities from 'Double Indemnity' and places them in a story about journalism. Kirk Douglas awesomely plays a callous newspaper writer looking to exploit a situation for his own selfish career boost. The film is drenched in a cynical atmosphere that pays off as coldly as you would expect. A good story made all the better with angry statements about the circus of media brought on by unsavory journalism.
