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Night Editor is a american film of genre Drama directed by Henry Levin released in USA on 29 march 1946 with William Gargan
Night Editor (1946)
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Add to a movie listFor the 1954 DuMont TV series, see Night Editor (TV series).
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."
The movie was to be the first in a series of films featuring stories about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at fictional newspaper, the New York Star, but no other Night Editor films were made.
Synopsis
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.Actors
William Gargan
(Tony Cochrane)
Janis Carter
(Jill Merrill)
Jeff Donnell
(Martha Cochrane)
Harry Shannon
(Capt. Lawrence)
Frank Wilcox
(Douglas Loring)
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