The Inside Story (film)

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The Inside Story
The Inside Story poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Allan Dwan
Screenplay by Mary Loos
Richard Sale
Story by Ernest Lehman
Geza Herczeg
Produced byAllan Dwan
Starring Marsha Hunt
William Lundigan
Charles Winninger
Gail Patrick
Gene Lockhart
Florence Bates
Cinematography Reggie Lanning
Edited by Arthur Roberts
Music by Nathan Scott
Production
company
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • March 14, 1948 (1948-03-14)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Inside Story is a 1948 American comedy drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Mary Loos and Richard Sale. The film stars Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick, Gene Lockhart and Florence Bates. The film was released on March 14, 1948 by Republic Pictures. [1] [2] [3]

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Synopsis

The story is laid in a Vermont town in 1933 in which six residents find themselves in some kind of a predicament because the government had declared a Bank Holiday to avoid run-on-the-bank situations happening across the country. By a curious turn-of-events ten $100 bills are put in an inn's safe. Innkeeper Horace Taylor finds them and concludes they are payments from his debtors. He immediately pays off his own debts---only to be told later by his clerk, Uncle Ed, that the money belonged to a guest at the inn. Taylor begins a frantic effort to trace and regain the money, which is merrily circulating around the town from storekeeper J. J. Johnson to a landlady, Geraldine Atherton, to a lawyer, Tom O'Connor and his wife Audrey, to an artist, Waldo Williams and his fiancée Francie Taylor, the inn-keepers daughter. Plus, two rum-running bootleggers are conducting their own search for the bills. As Taylor trails the elusive money, the individual dramas of the various possessors are revealed."Money is like blood needs to circulate".

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References

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