Night Editor
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6.2/10 Letterboxd Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Drama Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Director Henry Levin Music director Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 29, 1946 (1946-03-29) (United States) Based on Night Editor episode "Inside Story" by Scott Littleton Writer Scott Littleton (story), Harold Jacob Smith (screenplay), Hal Burdick (radio program) Cast (Tony Cochrane), (Jill Merrill), (Martha Cochrane), Coulter Irwin (Johnny), (Crane Stewart), (Ole Strom)Screenplay Hal Smith, Scott Littleton, Hal Burdick Similar movies The Adventures of Tintin , Megamind , Detour , Zodiac , Bridget Jones's Diary , Double Indemnity Tagline In the middle of a kiss...Murder! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Night Editor is a 1946 B-movie film noir directed by Henry Levin and based on a popular radio program of the same name. The script for the film was based on a previous radio program episode "Inside Story."
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The movie was to be the first in a series of films featuring stories about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at a fictional newspaper, the New York Star, but no other Night Editor films were made.
Plot
Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation.
In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane (William Gargan), a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill (Janis Carter). Cochrane and the woman, who is also cheating on her husband, witness a man bludgeoning his girlfriend to death with a tire iron while the couple is parked at "lovers lane" by the beach.
The two can't report the crime without revealing their cheating, a dilemma which eventually leads to bigger troubles. Meanwhile, Cochrane must investigate the killing but is not able to tell anyone he witnessed the crime.
Cast
Radio program
The radio program the film was based upon ran from 1934 until 1948.
Sponsored by Edwards Coffee, this featured Hal Burdick (1893–1978) as the "night editor". Burdick would receive readers’ requests for stories, in a "letter to the editor" format, which would tell on the program. Burdick played all characters in the program. The stories varied greatly including tales of war, adventure, crime, and an occasional ghost story. The radio series was adapted for Night Editor, a short-lived TV series on the DuMont Television Network in 1954, also hosted by Burdick.
References
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