I Cover the War (1937)

Drama War

Bob Adams, 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, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don 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.

Updated May 29 2020

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1937-07-04

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Runtime: 68 mins Rating: 5.3 Tag Line: DRAMA FOR HIS NEWSREEL CAMERA!

Cast

John Wayne

Bob Adams

Richard Tucker

Army Officer

Don Barclay

Elmer Davis (as Don Barkley)

Olaf Hytten

Sir Herbert

Earle Hodgins

Blake

Arthur Aylesworth

Dave Logan

James Bush

Mrs. Mannheim

Frank Lackteen

Mustapha