The House Across the Street
The story of a redheaded shill!
1949 · 1h 9m · Passed
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Richard L. Bare
Overview
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Director and cast
- Richard L. Bare Director
- Wayne Morris as Dave Joslin
- Janis Paige as Kit Williams
- Bruce Bennett as Matthew J. Keever
- Alan Hale as J.B. Grennell
- James Mitchell as Marty Bremer
- Barbara Bates as Beth Roberts
- James Holden as Carl Schrader
- Irving Bacon as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
- George Chandler as Carl's Boss (uncredited)
- Alex Gerry as Lawyer Markley (uncredited)
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