Unholy Partners

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Unholy Partners
Unholy Partners poster.jpg
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Earl Baldwin
Bartlett Cormack
Produced byMervyn LeRoy
Samuel Marx
Starring Edward G. Robinson
Laraine Day
Edward Arnold
Marsha Hunt
Cinematography George Barnes
Edited by Harold F. Kress
Music by David Snell
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's Inc.
Release date
  • November 1941 (1941-11)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Unholy Partners is a 1941 American crime drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold and Marsha Hunt. [1] [2] It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Plot

A newspaper reporter, Bruce Corey, returns from World War I to New York City. 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.

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