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The House Across the Street
“The story of a redheaded shill!”
4.8 / 10• 1949• 1h 9m•NR• English
ComedyDramaCrime
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Wayne Morris
Dave Joslin
Lead
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)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Richard L. Bare's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The House Across the Street is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
