I Cover the War!

Jul 4, 1937

1h 8m

★ 4.9

DRAMA FOR HIS NEWSREEL CAMERA!

Overview

Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.

Genres

War

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

I Cover the War! Trailers

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Cast

Bob Adams

John Wayne

Pamela Armitage

Gwen Gaze

Elmer Davis

Don Barclay

El Kadar / Muffadhi

Charles Brokaw

Don Adams

James Bush

Captain Archie Culvert

Pat Somerset

Dave Logan

Arthur Aylesworth

Colonel Hugh Armitage

Sam Harris

Sir Herbert

Olaf Hytten

Mustapha

Frank Lackteen

Parker

Franklin Parker

Sergeant Major

Keith Hitchcock

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