I Cover the Waterfront

I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

She Married Him for BETTER or for WORSE...MOSTLY WORSE!

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

Date of release
1933-05-19
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
James Cruze

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: I Cover the Waterfront

I Cover the Waterfront is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, and Hobart Cavanaugh.

Production

Rights to the novel were bought by Edward Small and his partner Harry Goets in 1932. The picture was made through the Reliance Picture Corporation, which co-produced it with Joseph Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation. as the first of a six-film deal with United Artists.

I Cover the Waterfront was filmed from mid-February to early March 1933.

The film's title song, "I Cover the Waterfront", appears in the film only as an instrumental. Written by Johnny Green and Edward Heyman, the song went on to become a jazz standard recorded by many artists, including Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, The Ink Spots, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

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