Movie: I Cover Big Town

Top 9 Billed Cast

Phillip Reed
Phillip Reed

Steve Wilson

Hillary Brooke
Hillary Brooke

Lorelei Kilbourne

Robert Lowery
Robert Lowery

Pete Ryan

Robert Shayne
Robert Shayne

Chief Tom Blake

Mona Barrie
Mona Barrie

Dora Hilton

Vince Barnett
Vince Barnett

Louis Murkil

Louis Jean Heydt
Louis Jean Heydt

John Moulton

Frank Wilcox
Frank Wilcox

Harry Hilton

Leonard Penn
Leonard Penn

Norden Royal

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1947-02-27

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
  • Tagline

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

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  • Languages:

    English
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