Review of Park Row (1952) by Brian C — 06 Mar 2012
Sam Fuller's crazy, exposition-filled tribute to American journalism. This short movie is truly exhausting since it is filled with intensely delivered monologues hailing everything about newspapers that fills up the entire movie running time.
The characters speak like giants of American history but we don't roll our eyes, the dialogue is so passionately delivered. We're watching a movie filmed on one studio-built set and Fuller moves the camera so often that we rarely feel the limitations the single street he constantly features with his moving crane shots.
Add in the occasional fist fight (Fuller somehow caught all the energy that leads up to and into a fight on camera - amazing blocking!) and one of the most chauvinistic love-story subplots you'll ever see (yes, she actually has to submit her newspaper to his) and we've got a flawed little gem, a shameless celebration of American myth and the kind of people Americans once imagined themselves to be.
This review of Park Row (1952) was written by Brian C on 06 Mar 2012.
Park Row has generally received very positive reviews.
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