I Cover Big Town

Feb 27, 1947

1h 3m

★ 6.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Pine-Thomas Productions

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Cast

Steve Wilson

Phillip Reed

Lorelei Kilbourne

Hillary Brooke

Pete Ryan

Robert Lowery

Chief Tom Blake

Robert Shayne

Dora Hilton

Mona Barrie

Louis Murkil

Vince Barnett

John Moulton

Louis Jean Heydt

Harry Hilton

Frank Wilcox

Norden Royal

Leonard Penn

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I Cover Big Town

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