
In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. Despite the fact he rather fancies the lady the newsman perseveres with the help of the first Linotype machine, invented on his premises, while also giving a hand with getting the Statue of Liberty erected.... (Full plot summary below)
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In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. Despite the fact he rather fancies the lady the newsman perseveres with the help of the first Linotype machine, invented on his premises, while also giving a hand with getting the Statue of Liberty erected.
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| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonThe Citizen Kane of B-movies, an absolute masterpiece born fully-formed from one very singular mind. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumEnthusiasm flows into every nook and cranny of this cozy movie: when violence breaks out in the cramped-looking set of the title street, the camera weaves in and out of the buildings as through they were a sports arena, in a single take. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerPark Row is driven by Fuller's love of old-school journalism ideals and newspaper wars. |
| User ReviewMichael SSam Fuller's great film about the early days of journalism in NYC. Tough, tender and funny - a love letter from a filmmaker to his former profession. |
| User ReviewDustin GThis 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- |
| User ReviewBob Squite possibly one of the greatest american films by the greatest american director |
| User ReviewChris LGreat story by Samuel Fuller about the importance of the integrity of the fourth estate. |
| User ReviewDoug NA great, snappy ode to journalism, and another fantastic film from director Samuel Fuller. (Could that man do any wrong?) |
| User ReviewChristopher SIdealistic yet extremely relevant, semi-autobiographical tale that fits perfectly with Fuller's more literal war stories. Studs Terkel's prostate shrinks two sizes more small every time someone watches this... |
| User ReviewGreg MSamuel Fuller paid from his own pocket to produce this angry, idealistic account of 1880s New York newspaper wars, laden with nostalgia for the early days of print. |