The House Across the Street

Sep 10, 1949

1h 9m

★ 4.5

The story of a redheaded shill!

Overview

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Dave Joslin

Wayne Morris

Kit Williams

Janis Paige

Matthew J. Keever

Bruce Bennett

J.B. Grennell

Alan Hale

Marty Bremer

James Mitchell

Beth Roberts

Barbara Bates

Carl Schrader

James Holden

Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Carl's Boss (uncredited)

George Chandler

Lawyer Markley (uncredited)

Alex Gerry

Boy (uncredited)

Billy Gray

Narrator (uncredited)

Douglas Kennedy

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