The Girl in the News is a fine example of that satisfying genre, the well mannered British murder thriller peopled with attractive and accomplished actors and with a clever script. If it doesn't reach the classic status of the films Carol Reed directed in his great Forties and early Fifties years (Night Train to Munich, 1940; Odd Man Out, 1947; The Fallen Idol, 1948; The Third Man, 1949; and Outcast of the Islands, 1952), still it’s a pleasant way to spend 78 minutes. … more