Review of Park Row (1952) by Dustin G — 17 Jul 2011

This is fucking pure, unfiltered Sam Fuller in all his awesome tough as nails glory, spinning a yarn about the start of a newspaper on Park Row, New York, and its subsequent war with a rival paper.

All the things that make Fuller movies Fuller movies are here in spades: Great, realistic, tough guy writing, boozing, fighting, blood and ink and sweat and grease. Amazing.

This is a criminally unseen and hard to find film that is only available in a shitty DVD-R version with no extras and a photocopied cover. That's garbage. I'm crossing my fingers that Criterion will come to the rescue, as it did for a few of Fuller's other films, and give it the treatment it deserves.

Fuller sunk all the money he had into this film and never got it back but this remained his favourite Sam Fuller film. Well, it's mine also.

-30-.