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The House Across the Street

  • 1949
  • TMDB 4.8/10
  • 1h 9m

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.

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 MorrisDave Joslin
  • Janis PaigeKit Williams
  • Bruce BennettMatthew J. Keever
  • Alan HaleJ.B. Grennell
  • James MitchellMarty Bremer
  • Barbara BatesBeth Roberts
  • James HoldenCarl Schrader
  • Irving BaconJury Foreman (uncredited)

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