

Night Editor
1946-03-29 · 68 min · ★ 5.5
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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- Directors
- Henry Levin
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
William GarganTony Cochrane
Janis CarterJill Merrill
Jeff DonnellMartha Cochrane
Coulter IrwinJohnny
Charles D. BrownCrane Stewart
Paul E. BurnsOle Strom
Harry ShannonCapt. Lawrence
Frank WilcoxDouglas Loring
Robert Kellard'Doc' Cochrane (as Robert Stevens)
Roy GordonBenjamin Merrill (Uncredited)
Anthony CarusoTusco (Uncredited)
Harry TylerBartender (Uncredited)
Eddy ChandlerDickstein (Uncredited)
Michael ChapinDoc as a Boy (Uncredited)
Frank DaeButler (Uncredited)
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Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

War hero Danny Haley fleeces out-of-town dupes in a rigged poker game. He and his pals see Arthur Winant as an easy mark, but they've reckoned without Winant's homicidal brother, who wants revenge after Arthur commits suicide.

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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