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In America can a man be guilty until proven innocent?

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

Director
Sydney Pollack
Writer
Kurt Luedtke
Stars
Paul Newman -Sally Field -Bob Balaban -Melinda Dillon -Luther Adler

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Transcript
00:04here comes our boy michael colin gallagher are we investigating gallagher i want to know
00:09every nickel he's got and how he got it you're talking to a newspaper right now do you understand
00:17you can't write this it's murder
00:22suspected in the murder of joey diaz we don't have to say no murder so bad presumed murder
00:27then you're missing six months you're dead we have no knowledge the story is false therefore
00:31we're absent malice the story is true we may say whatever we like about mr gallagher and he is
00:35powerless to do us harm you don't want to have anything to do with mike gallagher you're gonna
00:43bust it i'm michael gallagher i want to know where this story came from suppose you picked up this
00:50morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline everything they said was accurate
00:55but none of it was true that's stuff in the paper that's not true you know that all i know
01:00is is
01:01what you read in the damn newspapers mr gallagher this is megan carter from the standard don't expect
01:06the truth unless you're willing to tell it i just need you to get to know me fast
01:13you say somebody's guilty everybody believes you you say he's innocent nobody cares
01:19i know how to print what's true and i know how not to hurt people i don't know how to
01:23do both at
01:24the same time neither do you you want to know the truth okay you want to ask me as a
01:30person
01:30i'll tell you you ask me as a reporter i got no comment paul newman sally field i'm free every
01:38night but friday how about friday okay what the hell are you doing here it's just a newspaper and
01:46there it is for everybody to see she writes the story that sets him up he writes the book on
01:51getting
01:52even absence of malice
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