If you loved Blackboard Jungle, try Absence of Malice

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Blackboard Jungle

1955 · dir. Richard Brooks

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Theyboth carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Blackboard Jungle, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Absence of Malice is

Here's a film unafraid of newsprint. A reporter prints a story implicating an innocent businessman in a crime, triggering a chain of tragic events. The movie makes sure we understand newspaper ethics, if nothing else.

If you loved Blackboard Jungle, try Absence of Malice

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