Few old movies are as accidentally timely as Richard Brooks’ 57-year-old “Deadline USA,” starring Humphrey Bogart as the crusading editor of a New York newspaper that is about to fold. “It’s not enough any more to give ’em just news,” rails Bogie’s Ed Hutcheson at a boozy wake for his paper “They want comics, contests, puzzles. They want to know how to bake a cake, win friends, and influence the future. Ergo, horoscopes, tips on the horses, interpretation of dreams so they can win on the numbers lottery. And, if they accidentally stumble on the first page… news!” Bogart is furious because the greedy daughters of the late founder want to sell the New York Day to a sleazy competitor who plans to close it, against the wishes of their mother (Ethel Barrymore). So he decides to go out with one last crusade against gangster Martin Gabel, who is threatening to have Bogie killed. Brooks, an old newspaper hand, based this rip-snorting yarn (“The Day the World Folded” was the original title) on the 1931 demise of the New York World, which was absorbed into the World Telegram, which in turn bought out the New York Sun in 1950 to become the World Telegram and Sun. The latter is one of several long-demised New York papers pictured in the background of his striking color publicity still with Bogart. Two others that can be glimpsed are the New York Herald Tribune (its Paris edition, published by the New York Times, survives) and the New York Journal American. In 1966, both of them merged with the World Telegram and Sun to produce the New York World Journal Tribune, which survived less than a year. To the left can be glimpsed the logotype of the tabloid New York Daily Mirror, which was still one of the country’s most widely circulated newspapers, with over one million readers but few advertisers, when it folded in 1963 following a devastating 114-day newspaper strike. “Deadline USA” filmed some scenes in New York. A young pressman who Bogie talks with — all we hear is the roar of the presses — is played by James Dean.