I Cover Big Town

I Cover Big Town

63 mins | Drama | Feb. 27, 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 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.

I Cover Big Town

63 mins | Drama | Feb. 27, 1947

I Cover Big Town
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.
Producers Pine-Thomas Productions
Original title I Cover Big Town
Directors William C. Thomas
Writers Maxwell Shane

Cast

Phillip Reed

as Steve Wilson

Hillary Brooke

as Lorelei Kilbourne

Robert Lowery

as Pete Ryan

Robert Shayne

as Chief Tom Blake

Mona Barrie

as Dora Hilton

Vince Barnett

as Louis Murkil

Louis Jean Heydt

as John Moulton

Frank Wilcox

as Harry Hilton

Leonard Penn

as Norden Royal