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Unholy Partners
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| Unholy Partners | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Produced by | Mervyn LeRoy Samuel Marx |
| Written by | Earl Baldwin Bartlett Cormack |
| Starring | Edward G. Robinson Edward Arnold |
| Music by | David Snell |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Editing by | Harold F. Kress |
| Release date(s) | November 1941 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Unholy Partners is a 1941 black-and-white film starring Edward G. Robinson. The newspaper story was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
A newspaper reporter returns from the war to New York City. After reporting to his job at his old newspaper, he finds that his old editor doesn't like his new ideas. Corey, with his reporter friends from the war, go off to start his own smaller tabloid style newspaper which will feature "the news before it happens." Corey gambles with a mob boss and wins the money to start up his paper. The New York Mercury is an almost instant success. But because of a number of stories that may implicate the newspapers silent partner in a number of crimes, Corey finds himself and his staff threatened and even shot at. Corey finally kills the mob boss and flees the country on a plane that is attempting a trans-Atlantic flight. The plane crashes and the newspaper editor is killed.
- Edward G. Robinson as Bruce Corey
- Edward Arnold as Merrill Lambert
- Laraine Day as Miss 'Croney' Cronin
- Marsha Hunt as Gail Fenton
- William T. Orr as 'Tommy' Jarvis
- Don Beddoe as Michael Z. 'Mike' Reynolds
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