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Night Editor is a 1946 American film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring William Gargan, Janis Carter and Jeff Donnell. It was 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." [1] A B-movie produced by Columbia Pictures, The movie was to be the first ...
Night Editor: Directed by Henry Levin. With William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Coulter Irwin. A detective's dilemma. A murder investigation is compromised by the detective's compromised position in love.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Henry Levin
- 1946-03-29
Night Editor is a 1946 American film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring William Gargan, Janis Carter and Jeff Donnell. It was 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." A B-movie produced by Columbia Pictures, The movie was to be the first in a ...
Night Editor culminates in a stark depiction of the walking dead man motif, a narrative device seen in classics like Double Indemnity and D.O.A. leaving Tony a mere shadow of his former self — a cautionary figure for the likes of Johnny.
Night editor Crane Stewart's flashbacked story ended - it immediately sobered up the young drunken and "mixed-up" reporter Johnny. In the film's last minute plot twist reveal, after hearing the story, Johnny had already left the office and walked into the lobby of the newspaper building.
Night Editor (1946) Columbia Pictures' and director Henry Levin teamed to create this short, hard-boiled, B-quality, noirish crime drama and police detective thriller with a prolonged flashbacked tale. It was the first (and only) film dramatized and based on a previous episode in the Night Editor radio series (broadcast weekly from 1934-1948).
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Night Editor is directed by Henry Levin and adapted to screenplay by Hal Smith from the radio program of the same name - by Hal Burdick - and the short story, Inside Story, written by Scott Littleton. It stars William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Coulter Irwin and Charles D. Brown.
