The House Across the Street

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.

• Release date
• September 10, 1949
• Runtime
• 69 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama, Crime
• Director
• Richard L. Bare

Cast

Wayne Morris Dave Joslin Janis Paige Kit Williams Bruce Bennett Matthew J. Keever Alan Hale J.B. Grennell James Mitchell Marty Bremer Barbara Bates Beth Roberts James Holden Carl Schrader Irving Bacon Jury Foreman (uncredited)