-30- (film)
| -30- | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Jack Webb |
| Produced by | Jack Webb |
| Written by | William Bowers |
| Starring |
Jack Webb William Conrad Whitney Blake |
| Music by | Ray Heindorf |
| Cinematography | Edward Colman |
| Edited by | Robert M. Leeds |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
-30- (released as Deadline Midnight in the UK) is a 1959 film directed by Jack Webb and starring Webb and William Conrad as night managing editor and night city editor, respectively, of a fictional Los Angeles newspaper, loosely based on the real-life (and now-defunct) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.[1]
Title
"-30-" is used to signify "the end" or "over and out". It originates from several code tables for telegraph operators, but is traditional in the journalism field and is still used to indicate the end of transmitted news stories and press releases and can frequently be found in formal corporate documents posted on websites and delivered electronically or via print.
Plot
Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and leaves early the next morning, having put together a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During the active day in the life of a big city newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child named Billy. A reporter's grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York. A child is lost in the LA sewers (Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture: "Children Stay Out of These"). And copy boy Earl Collins considers quitting after failing to properly deliver a bet by city editor Jim Bathgate on the sex of children being born to a famous actress. A downpour is occurring during basically the whole movie.
Cast
- Jack Webb as Sam Gatlin
- William Conrad as Jim Bathgate
- David Nelson as Earl Collins
- Louise Lorimer as Lady Wilson
- Nancy Valentine as Jan Price
- Whitney Blake as Peggy Gatlin
- James Bell as Ben Quinn
- Joe Flynn as Hy Shapiro
- Richard Bakalyan as Carl Thompson
- Dick Whittinghill as Fred Kendall
- John Nolan as Ron Danton
- Richard Deacon as Chapman
- Howard Culver as Walt Ashton
- Fay McKenzie as Mrs. Jason
- Ronnie Dapo as Billy
- William Tracy as Unnamed Writer
- Phil Gordon as Unnamed character
- Mark Scott as Unnamed character
- Olan Soule as Unnamed character
- Dick Cathcart as Unnamed character
- Marshall Kent as Mr. Jason
- Alan Reynolds as Newspaper employee
- Donna Sue Needham as Lucille Greghauser
- John Truax as Newspaper employee
See also
References
- ↑ Thompson, Howard (November 12, 1959). "30 (1959) Jack Webb's '30' on Warners Double Bill". The New York Times.
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