Night Editor
1946 · United States · 68 min
- Director
- Henry Levin
- Producer
- Ted Richmond
- Music
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
- Cinematography
- Burnett Guffey
- Editing
- Richard Fantl
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
Cast
What it is about
Crane Stewart, the editor of the New York Star, tells his poker companions a story about a policeman caught up in a murder investigation. The protagonist is Lieutenant Tony Cochrane, a married man having an affair with socialite Jill Merrill. The two witness a crime that leaves them unable to speak up.
How it was made
The film grew out of a popular radio program of the same name, which ran from 1934 to 1948, and its script drew on an earlier episode called Inside Story. Columbia Pictures made it as a B movie, with Ted Richmond producing and Henry Levin directing. It was meant to launch a series about night-shift crime reporters, but no further entries followed. Shooting began on 26 December 1945.
Reception and legacy
The available sources offer little information about its critical reception. Its most notable later release was a 2010 DVD included in Sony's Bad Girls of Film Noir: Volume II box set. The radio format returned in 1954 as a short-lived television series on the DuMont network, again hosted by Hal Burdick.
Stills
Trivia
From the microphone to the screen
Before reaching the cinema, the story aired on radio between 1934 and 1948. Hal Burdick, its host, played all the characters in the program.
A series that never came
The film was meant to be the first of a series about crime reporters at the fictional New York Star, but no further installments were made.
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