Big Town
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Genres
Overview
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
60 min
Release Date
1946-08-23
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
4.8
Phillip Reed
Steve Wilson
Hillary Brooke
Lorelei Kilbourne
Robert Lowery
Pete Ryan
Veda Ann Borg
Vivian LeRoy
Byron Barr
Vance Crane
Charles Arnt
Amos Peabody
Nana Bryant
Mrs. Crane
Roy Gordon
Editor Post
Eddie Parks
Gerald Meeker, theater cashier
Nella Walker
Mrs. Johannsen, victim's mother
Thomas E. Jackson
Police Chief Berkley
Fred Aldrich
Cop (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
Witness (uncredited)
Harry Cheshire
Police Chief Masters (uncredited)
Frank Fenton
Fletcher (uncredited)
Blake Edwards
Nixon-Reporter (uncredited)
Keith Richards
Man in Bar (uncredited)
Will Wright
Station Agent (uncredited)
Leander De Cordova
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
John Dehner
Willard Erskine (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Mac- Policeman (uncredited)
Ben Erway
Harris (uncredited)
Sam Flint
Newsman (uncredited)
Sol Gorss
Roustabout (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Reporter (uncredited)
Nolan Leary
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Richard Lydon
Boy (uncredited)
Rose Plumer
Nurse (uncredited)
Frank J. Scannell
Carnival Barker (uncredited)
Jack Shea
Cop (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Bartender Joe (uncredited)
5.4
Death Goes to School
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
1953-05-01 | en
7.6
All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
1976-04-09 | en
4.8
Port of New York
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
1949-11-28 | en
4.6
Glen or Glenda
A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.
1953-04-01 | en
6.0
Within the Law
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
1939-03-17 | en
7.9
Ace in the Hole
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
1951-06-29 | en
5.8
Trapped
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
1949-09-27 | en
5.8
Murder Is My Beat
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
1955-02-27 | en
6.6
Highway 301
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
1950-12-01 | en
6.0
The Mark of the Whistler
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
1944-10-09 | en
5.8
The Power of the Whistler
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
1945-04-19 | en
5.7
Voice of the Whistler
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
1945-10-30 | en
6.0
The Spellbinder
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
1939-07-28 | en
4.8
Bitch Slap
Three bad girls - a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer, and a corporate powerbroker - arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.
2009-05-16 | en
4.9
The Gangster
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
1947-11-25 | en
6.1
One Girl's Confession
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
1953-04-06 | en
5.7
Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
1955-02-01 | en
5.3
The Blue Parrot
'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.
1953-10-01 | en
6.6
Loophole
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
1954-03-28 | en
5.2
Over-Exposed
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
1956-04-01 | en