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Big Town After Dark

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Big Town After Dark
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1hr 9min
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1947
Distributor:
Alpha Video
Synopsis: Top-notch police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) decides to resign her job when her novel is published, and gives Big Town Illustrated Press editor-in-chief Steve Wilson (Philip Reed) her two-weeks' notice. Lorelei is surprised when Steve hires a replacement that day, Susan Peabody (Ann Gillis), a journalism student who is actually the niece of the newspaper's publisher Amos Peabody (Charles Arnt). Steve discovers that Susan has a gambling habit that she developed in college -- he tries ... Full Synopsis
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Big Town After Dark is an entertaining B-picture of the kind that disappeared with the advent of television, though it also has elements of violence that television was never fully comfortable with. Ironically, it was based on the long-running Big Town radio show. Philip Reed plays a kind of hero that has disappeared from American popular culture in the ensuing decades, the knowledgable, well-spoken ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Steve Wilson
Lorelei Kilbourne
Chuck LaRue
Louie Snead
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