The House Across the Street

Name: The House Across the Street
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Released: 1949-09-10
Duration: 1 h 9 min
Cast: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, James Mitchell

1949, English. Directed by Richard L. Bare.

The story of a redheaded shill!

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.

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Runtime: 1h 9m
Post-credits: None listed
Language: English
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Released: 10 September 1949
Country: United States of America
Written by: Roy Chanslor, Russell S. Hughes

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The House Across the Street (1949) was directed by Richard L. Bare and stars Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett.