该电影由Richard Brooks执导，Humphrey Bogart、Kim Hunter、Ed Begley等主演，于1952年上映。在87分钟的叙事中，《截稿》（又名：Deadline、铁血长城）Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York ’Day’, finds that the late owner’s heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. But when a reporter, pursuing a lead on racketeer Rienzi, is badly beaten, Hutcheson is stung into a full fledged crusade against the gangster, hoping Rienzi can be tied to a woman’s murder...in the 3 issues before the end of ’The Day.’