Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels, and Billy Wilder.

Charles Tatum

• Bad news sells best. 'Cause good news is no news.

• How'd you like to make a thousand dollars a day, Mr. Boot? I'm a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaperman. You can have me for nothing.

• I've done a lot of lying in my time. I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders. But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders.

• It's a good story today. Tomorrow, it'll be yesterday's news and they'll wrap a fish in it.

• I can handle big news and little news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.

Lorraine Minosa

• I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you--you're twenty minutes.

• I don't pray. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Dialogue

Reporter: We're all in the same boat here.

Charles Tatum: I'm in the boat. You're in the water. Now let's see how you can swim.

Cast

• Kirk Douglas - Charles 'Chuck' Tatum
• Jan Sterling - Lorraine Minosa
• Robert Arthur - Herbie Cook
• Porter Hall - Jacob Q. Boot
• Frank Cady - Mr. Federber
• Richard Benedict - Leo Minosa
• Ray Teal - Sheriff
• Lewis Martin - McCardle
• John Berkes - Papa Minosa
• Frances Dominguez - Mama Minosa
• Gene Evans - Deputy Sheriff
• Frank Jaquet - Sam Smollett