Burt Lancaster is eminently hissable as a tabloid publisher in the made-for-TV
Scandal Sheet. The current target of
Lancaster's smears is alcoholic actor
Robert Urich, who is on the verge of making a comeback through the auspices of his movie-star wife
Lauren Hutton. Ruthlessly going after
Urich merely for the purpose of selling newspapers,
Lancaster "persuades" impoverished reporter
Pamela Reed, the best friend of
Urich and
Hutton, to help him wield the hatchet. Sublimely trashy,
Scandal Sheet is held together by the despicably dynamic performance of
Burt Lancaster. The film was of course made long before tabloid publishers were being lauded as "news analysts" on TV talk shows. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide