

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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.

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

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

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

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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.

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