''Unholy Partners'' is a 1941 American
crime
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drama film
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directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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and starring
Edward G. Robinson,
Laraine Day,
Edward Arnold and
Marsha Hunt.
[Boggs p.73-74] It was produced and distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
Plot
A
newspaper reporter, Bruce Corey, returns from
World War I
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to
New York City
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. After reporting to his job at his old newspaper, Corey finds that his old
editor doesn't like his new ideas. Corey and his war correspondent friends start their own down-market 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'', an instant success.
However, because of stories that may implicate the newspaper's silent partner in a number of crimes, Corey finds himself and his staff threatened and even the targets of gunfire. Corey finally kills the mob boss and flees the country on a plane that is attempting a trans-Atlantic flight. The plane crashes and he is killed. Rather than embroil the paper in the murder investigation, Corey embarks on what he knows is an extremely dangerous flight. The plane does crash mid-ocean at the end he is reported to have swum away from a rescue craft.
Cast
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Edward G. Robinson as Bruce Corey
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Edward Arnold as Merrill Lambert
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Laraine Day as Miss Cronin
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Marsha Hunt as Gail Fenton
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William T. Orr as Thomas Jarvis
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Don Beddoe as Michael Reynolds
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Walter Kingsford as Mr. Peck - Managing Editor
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Charles Dingle as Clyde Fenton
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Charles Halton as Phil Kaper - Attorney
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Joe Downing as Jerry - Henchman
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Clyde Fillmore as Jason Grant
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Emory Parnell as Col. Mason
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Don Costello as Georgie Pelotti
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Marcel Dalio as Molyneaux
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Robert Homans as Inspector Pat Brody
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Elliott Sullivan as Eddie
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Frank Faylen as Roger Ordway
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Frank Orth as Shino McGoon
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William Edmunds as Pop, Night Watchman
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Florine McKinney as Mary, Secretary
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June MacCloy as Blonde in Miami
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Ray Teal as Waiter
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Bert Moorhouse as Gambler
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Ann Pennington as Telephone Operator
References
Bibliography
* Boggs, Johnny D. ''American Newspaper Journalists on Film: Portrayals of the Press During the Sound Era''. McFarland, 2022.
* Fetrow, Alan G. ''Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography''. McFarland, 1994.
External links
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1941 films
American black-and-white films
1941 crime drama films
Films about journalists
Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy
1941 romantic drama films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
American crime drama films
American romantic drama films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
Films scored by David L. Snell
Films set in New York City
Films set in the 1920s
English-language crime drama films
English-language romantic drama films
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