The Story on Page One

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Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, and Gig Young in The Story on Page One (1959)

Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.

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Rita Hayworth

Josephine Brown…

Anthony Franciosa

Victor Santini

Gig Young

Larry Ellis

Mildred Dunnock

Mrs. Ellis

Hugh Griffith

Judge Edgar Neilsen

Sanford Meisner

Phil Stanley

Robert Burton

District Attorney Nordeau

Alfred Ryder

Lt. Mike Morris

Katherine Squire

Mrs. Hattie Brown

Raymond Greenleaf

Judge Carey

Myrna Fahey

Alice

Leo Penn

Morrie Goetz

Sheridan Comerate

Ofcr. Francis Morris

Jay Adler

Lauber
(uncredited)

Dana Andrews

Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
(archive footage)
(voice)
(uncredited)

Joe Besser

Gallagher
(uncredited)

Virginia Carroll

Police Matron
(uncredited)

Harry Carter

Seth - Court Bailiff
(uncredited)

Director
- Clifford Odets
Writer
- Clifford Odets
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Trivia
According to an article in the May 25, 1959 edition of Daily Variety, Marilyn Monroe was the first choice for the lead.

Goofs
While Mrs. Ellis is on the stand, she can be also be clearly seen in the court room audience.

Quotes
Victor Santini: He's been with the judge twenty minutes. What could he be saying to him?

Connections
Referenced in Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann on 'Gilda' (2010)

Soundtracks
Old Black Joe
(uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
Played on the piano and sung by Carol Anne Seflinger

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a second-rate B movie with a pure "Hollywood" ending

This movie is pretty disappointing. Rita Hayworth and Gig Young are, each in a different way, completely unconvincing in roles that portray characters so dumb and passive that it would be hard to play them really well. The long denouement, their trial for murder, is boring and inferior to a standard Perry Mason. How Odets did a movie this trite is a puzzle. For a while I had hopes of a surprise ending, a la "Witness for the Prosecution" -- but Tony Franciosa is not Charles Laughton and the heartwarmingly straight ending is so unsurprising that I was surprised by it.