From out of the blue of the western sky comes ...
Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions! Today's entry: the 1952 film ...
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"Scandal Sheet" takes place in a mythical world
where people still read newspapers. |
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Rush Limbaugh plays Mark Chapman, hard-driving
newspaper editor. |
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Chapman has made the New York Express a circulation
juggernaut by emphasizing misleading headlines ... |
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... sensational stories ... |
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... and a comics page with "Marmaduke." People just
love that doggone pooch! |
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The stockholders don't like Chapman's sleazy approach,
but they very much like their big dividend checks. Chapman's
goal is to reach 750,000 -- readers, not scowls. |
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The newspaper's star reporters are Donna Reed,
biding her time until a sitcom comes along ... |
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... and John Derek, biding his time until
he marries someone named Bo. |
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At a lonely hearts dance sponsored by the paper,
Chapman runs across the wife he abandoned years ago. |
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They begin discussing old times. |
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But Chapman's wife's head gets discussed right into
an iron pipe, and she is killed. |
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At least it makes for a nice story. |
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Derek and his photographer sidekick, Col. Potter
from "M*A*S*H," set out to solve the case. |
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You'd sweat, too, if you felt the long arm of justice reaching
right up into the bowels of your guilty conscience. |
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In the end, the reporters get their man ... |
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... and the circulation of the Express
finally reaches 750,000 because of the story ... |
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... and the addition of "The Lockhorns" to
the comics page. |
John Derek had such soft features. Too soft for leading man status-- at least, back then.
ReplyDeleteAnother fab post! I loved the tributes to the comic page. What newspaper was complete without comic strips?
ReplyDeleteI've never seen this one, but I'd really like to. I'm sure I'd enjoy Rush Limbaugh's - er, Broderick Crawford's performance.