| budget = $439,000{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.

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Bannerline is a 1951 American drama film directed by Don Weis.{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/inventory-9-neglected-auteurs-1798210383|title=Inventory: 9 Neglected Auteurs|first=Noel|last=Murray|work=The A.V. Club|publisher=G/O Media|location=Chicago|date=December 15, 2006|access-date=August 26, 2020}} The film stars Keefe Brasselle,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/15/obituaries/keefe-brasselle-58-actor-tv-producer-author-novel-keefe-brasselle-acted-lead.html|title=KEEFE BRASSELLE, 58, ACTOR, TV PRODUCER, AUTHOR OF A NOVEL; Keefe Brasselle, Acted Lead in 'Cantor Story'|agency=Associated Press|work=The New York Times|location=New York City|date=July 15, 1981|access-date=August 26, 2020}} Sally Forrest and Lionel Barrymore.{{sfn|Paietta|2007|page=20}}

Plot

Young Mike Perrivale (Keefe Brasselle) is an ambitious reporter for the Carravia Clarion, who resents being assigned to cover only social events and small stories. He takes the advice of his girlfriend, Richie Loomis (Sally Forrest), to interview Hugo Trimble (Lionel Barrymore), a beloved local history teacher and community gadfly. Trimble, in the hospital and fatally ill, regrets that he was unable to root out corruption in the city's government, which has been under the control of gangster Frankie Scarbine (J. Carrol Nash). To cheer up the dying man, Perrivale persuades his editor and publisher to publish a few copies of the paper with a false front page proclaiming that Scarbine has been indicted and the government leaders have resigned. Trimble is touched by the gesture but knows immediately that the page is a fake.

Soon after at a bar, Perrivale encounters Josh (Lewis Stone), a former reporter and alcoholic who now runs the Clarion presses. Several drinks in, the two decide to print the complete run of the next day's edition using the fake front page. Scarbine is enraged, even though he has some admiration for Perrivale's nerve, and eventually demands that Perrivale be fired. Perrivale considers how he might be able to influence a "runaway grand jury" to investigate the city's corruption. After Mike is beaten by one of the Scarbine's men, Josh and the publisher take their knowledge to the grand jury. Recovering from his injuries in the hospital, Mike learns that Scarbine's gang has left town and the mayor and city council have resigned. Finally getting a promotion, Mike and Richie are able to marry.

Cast

Keefe Brasselle as Mike Perrivale
Sally Forrest as Richie Loomis
Lionel Barrymore as Hugo Trimble
Lewis Stone as Josh
J. Carrol Naish as Frankie Scarbine
Larry Keating as Stambaugh
Spring Byington as Mrs. Loomis
Warner Anderson as Roy
Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Margaret Trimble
Michael Ansara as Floyd
John Morgan as Al

Reception

=Box office=

According to MGM records the movie earned $350,000 in the US and Canada and $107,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $203,000.

References

=Citations=

=Sources=

{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnCADwAAQBAJ&q=Keefe+Brasselle+as+Mike+Perrivale&pg=PA20|title=Teachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present|first=Ann Catherine|last=Paietta|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=New York City|year=2007|page=20|isbn=9781476620343}}

External links

{{IMDb title|0043317}}
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{{AFI film|50022}}

Category:1951 films

Category:1951 drama films

Category:American drama films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:Films about journalists

Category:American films based on plays

Category:Films directed by Don Weis

Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films

Category:1951 directorial debut films

Category:1950s English-language films

Category:1950s American films

Category:English-language drama films

Category:Films based on works by Samson Raphaelson

Category:Films scored by Rudolph G. Kopp