I decided to revisit an old favorite I hadn't seen in decades, Samuel Fuller's Park Row, and I'm delighted to report that it holds up 100%. If you're unfamiliar with Fuller's work I don't know how to prepare you; it is unique in all of American...

Enthusiasm 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.

With its lack of fluidity -- two huge faces usually dominate the screen -- and a cast that is all wrong, the only virtue the movie has is a certain brazen rashness.

Park Row is driven by Fuller's love of old-school journalism ideals and newspaper wars.