I Cover Big Town (1947)

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The ... See full summary »

Director:

William C. Thomas

Writers:

Whitman Chambers (radioplay), Maxwell Shane (screenplay)

Stars:

Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery

Cast

Cast overview:
Phillip Reed	...	Steve Wilson
Hillary Brooke	...	Lorelei Kilbourne
Robert Lowery	...	Pete Ryan
Robert Shayne	...	Chief Tom Blake
Mona Barrie	...	Dora Hilton
Vince Barnett	...	Louis Murkil
Louis Jean Heydt	...	John Moulton
Frank Wilcox	...	Harry Hilton
Leonard Penn	...	Norden Royal

Storyline

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime. The police chief lends enough of a helping hand to be vindicated.

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Taglines:

TWO-FISTED, FIGHTING STEVE WILSON UNCOVERS BIG TOWN'S BIGGEST DOUBLE-CROSS!

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 February 1947 (USA)

Also Known As:

I Cover the Underworld

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pine-Thomas Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

63 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

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