Paper Orchid (1949)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's apartment. The despairing killer then throws himself beneath a speeding train.
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alcoholism, apartment, business, columnist, competition, corpse, gossip, gossip-columnist, investigation, journalism, killing, murder, newspaper, planting, reporter, rival, train [locomotive]
