OTHER GREATS THAT MISSED AP’S DEADLINE
1 The Paper (1994) In Ron Howard’s dramedy, Michael Keaton is the feisty metro editor of a New York tabloid fighting his managing editor (Glenn Close) to stop publication on an inaccurate cover story.
2 Deadline U.S.A. (1952) Crusading editor Humphrey Bogart stands up to gangsters in a bid to keep the publisher’s widow (Ethel Barrymore) from selling his beloved paper.
3 The Front Page (1974) There’s a 1931 original, but Billy Wilder’s remake reunites Odd Couple stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau for better comic effect.
4 Absence of Malice (1981) Paul Newman and Sally Field star in Sydney Pollack’s thriller about a reporter (Field) who helps a businessman (Newman) prove his innocence after her story falsely implicates him.
5 Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles directed and stars as power-hungry newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in this film widely regarded as among the best ever made.