Night Editor
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| Directed by | Henry Levin |
| Produced by | Ted Richmond |
| Written by | Hal Burdick (radio program) Scott Littleton (story Inside Story) Hal Smith |
| Starring | William Gargan Janis Carter |
| Cinematography | Burnett Guffey Philip Tannura |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Running time | 68 min |
| Language | English |
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Night Editor is a 1946 B-movie 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.
[edit] Plot
Crane Stewart 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, a family man who cheaths on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill. 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.
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| William Gargan | Tony Cochrane |
| Janis Carter | Jill Merrill |
| Jeff Donnell | Martha Cochrane |
| Coulter Irwin | Johnny |
| Charles D. Brown | Crane Stewart |
[edit] Radio program
The radio program the film was based upon ran from 1934 until 1948.
Sponsored by Edwards Coffee, this featured Hal Burdick as the "night editor". Hal 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.
