Big Town

Big Town (1946)

Now see the radio show that thrilled millions!

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Date of release
1946-08-23
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
William C. Thomas
Collection
Big Town

Casting

Interesting facts

Big Town is a 1947 American crime film directed by William C. Thomas and written by Daniel Mainwaring and Maxwell Shane. The film stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Veda Ann Borg, Byron Barr and Charles Arnt. The first in a series of four films based on the long-running radio program Big Town, it was released on May 23, 1947, by Paramount Pictures.

Production

Pine Thomas bought film rights in 1945 intended to make two films a year in the series.

The script was written by Daniel Mainwaring who later recalled, "Bill Thomas of Pine and Thomas, who made very small and very bad pictures at Paramount, gave me my first real screenwriting job. I wrote six pictures in one year, all of which I'd just as soon forget except Big Town . At the end of the year, I fled to the hills and wrote Build My Gallows High."

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