The House Across the Street (1949)

4.8/10 69 min Comedy Drama Crime

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.

Cast

Wayne Morris

Dave Joslin

Janis Paige

Kit Williams

Bruce Bennett

Matthew J. Keever

Alan Hale

J.B. Grennell

James Mitchell

Marty Bremer

Barbara Bates

Beth Roberts

James Holden

Carl Schrader

Irving Bacon

Jury Foreman (uncredited)

George Chandler

Carl's Boss (uncredited)

Alex Gerry

Lawyer Markley (uncredited)

Billy Gray

Boy (uncredited)

Douglas Kennedy

Narrator (uncredited)

Charles Lane

Apartment Manager (uncredited)

Lila Leeds

Billie Martin (uncredited)

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