-30- / -Thirty- (1959)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 5400 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:37:00 | USA | Drama
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 16:9 | 720x480 | 5400 kbps | 4.2Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:37:00 | USA | Drama
An active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper.
Director: Jack Webb
Cast: Jack Webb, William Conrad, David Nelson, Whitney Blake, Louise Lorimer, James Bell, Nancy Valentine, Joe Flynn, Richard Bakalyan, Dick Whittinghill, John Nolan, Howard McNear, Jonathan Hole, Richard Deacon, Ronnie Dapo, Fay McKenzie, Marshall Kent, Howard Culver, Phil Gordon, John Truax, Mark Scott, Olan Soule, William Tracy, Dick Cathcart, Alan Reynolds, Donna Sue Needham
EXTRA! SEE ALL ABOUT IT! From The Front Page to All the President's Men to State of Play, movies have long found a newspaper office to be a lively source of colorful characters and human drama. It's ideal for the brisk style of Jack Webb (Dragnet) - a world Webb explores in a film taking its title from the "-30-" reporters place at the end of a story. In -30-, newshounds race against the clock to fill the empty page with stories that will become part of America's next morning alongside a cup of coffee. Webb leads the way, playing the night editor of a big-city paper whose staff includes William Conrad, David Nelson, Joe Flynn and Richard Deacon. From 3 PM till midnight, they'll ride the adrenaline rush of dramas that shape the world and their own lives. Come next day, they'll gladly do it again.
IMDb
Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and departs early the next morning, having assembled a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During this implausibly active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child. The 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.
~ Paul Schindler