Big Town (1947 film)

Big Town
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	William C. Thomas
Screenplay by	Daniel Mainwaring Maxwell Shane
Story by	Daniel Mainwaring
Produced by	William H. Pine William C. Thomas
Starring	Phillip Reed Hillary Brooke Robert Lowery Veda Ann Borg Byron Barr Charles Arnt
Cinematography	Fred Jackman Jr.
Edited by	Howard A. Smith
Music by	Darrell Calker
Production company	Pine-Thomas Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 23, 1947 (1947-05-23)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Cast

• Phillip Reed as Steve Wilson
• Hillary Brooke as Lorelei Kilbourne
• Robert Lowery as Pete Ryan
• Veda Ann Borg as Vivian LeRoy
• Byron Barr as Vance Crane
• Charles Arnt as Amos Peabody
• Nana Bryant as Mrs. Crane
• Roy Gordon as Editor Post
• Eddie Parks as Gerald Meeker
• Nella Walker as Mrs. Johannsen
• Thomas E. Jackson as Police Chief Berkley

Production

Pine Thomas bought film rights in 1945 intended to make two films a year in the series. ^[4]

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 [1947]. At the end of the year, I fled to the hills and wrote Build My Gallows High ." ^[5]

Comic book adaptation

• Fiction House Movie Comics #1 (December 1946) ^{[6] [7]}

See also

• Big Town radio series

References

1. "Big Town (1947) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
2. Hal Erickson. "Big Town (1947) - William C. Thomas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
3. "Big Town". Afi.com. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
4. "Variety (July 1945)". 1945.
5. McGilligan, Pat, ed. (1997). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press. pp. 196–197.
6. "Fiction House Movie Comics #1". Grand Comics Database.
7. Fiction House Movie Comics #1 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original )

External links

• Big Town at IMDb
• Review at Variety