Night Editor (1946) is a B-movie film noir directed by Henry Levin and 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."
The movie was to be the first in a series of films featuring stories about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at fictional newspaper, the New York Star, but no other Night Editor films were made.
Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the e...
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Night Editor (1946) is a B-movie film noir directed by Henry Levin and 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."
The movie was to be the first in a series of films featuring stories about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at fictional newspaper, the New York Star, but no other Night Editor films were made.
Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation.
In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane (William Gargan), a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill (Janis Carter). Cochrane and the woman, who is also cheating on her husband, witness a man bludgeoning his girlfriend to death with a tire iron while the couple is parked at "lovers lane" by the beach.
The two can't report the crime without revealing...
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