Movies Similar to I Cover Big Town

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2009)

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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Ace in the Hole(1951)

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

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The Delavine Affair(1955)

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.

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All the President's Men(1976)

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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Shakedown(1950)

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

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While the City Sleeps(1956)

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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The Underworld Story(1950)

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

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-30-(1959)

A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.

5.7

Manhattan Night(2016)

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

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Special Agent(1935)

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

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Five Star Final(1931)

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

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Journey for Margaret(1942)

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.

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Front Page Story(1954)

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....

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Her Kind of Man(1946)

A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.

5.8

The Lawless(1950)

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

5.8

Big Town(1946)

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

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The Paperboy(2012)

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

5.5

Unholy Partners(1941)

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

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Lonelyhearts(1959)

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.

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The Angry Hills(1959)

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.

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