I COVER THE WAR
DIRECTED BY ARTHUR LUBIN
PRODUCED BY TREM CARR/PAUL MALVERN
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Photo with the courtesy of lasbugas
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Bob Adams (John Wayne), ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar (Charles Brokaw), bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela (Gwen Gaze), saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don (James Bush) from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.
Full Cast
John Wayne .... Bob Adams
Gwen Gaze .... Pamela Armitage
Don Barclay .... Elmer Davis
Pat Somerset .... Captain Archie Culvert
Charles Brokaw .... El Kadar/Muffadi
James Bush .... Don Adams
Arthur Aylesworth .... Logan
Jack Mack .... Graham
Franklin Parker .... Parker (as Franklyn Parker)
Sam Harris .... Colonel Armitage (as Major Sam Harris)
Earle Hodgins .... Blake
Frank Lackteen .... Mustapha
Keith Hitchcock .... Sergeant Major (as Keith Kenneth)
Olaf Hytten .... Sir Herbert
Abdulla .... Abdul
Richard Tucker .... Army Officer
Cinematography
Stanley Cortez
Harry Neumann
Goofs
Character error
Early in the film, Bob Adams's boss tells him he is going on assignment to Samarra, "near the Iraq border."
But when points to the local on a globe, he points somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, thousands of miles from Iraq.
Filming Location
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
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