Big Town (film)

Big Town
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	William C. Thomas
Produced by	William H. Pine; William C. Thomas
Screenplay by	Daniel Mainwaring; Maxwell Shane
Story by	Daniel Mainwaring
Starring	Phillip Reed; Hillary Brooke; Robert Lowery; Veda Ann Borg; Byron Barr; Charles Arnt
Music by	Darrell Calker
Cinematography	Fred Jackman Jr.
Edited by	Howard A. Smith
Production; company	Pine-Thomas Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 23, 1947;
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 film was released on May 23, 1947, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2][3]

Plot

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]

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References

"Big Town (1947) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
Hal Erickson. "Big Town (1947) - William C. Thomas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
"Big Town". Afi.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
https://archive.org/stream/variety159-1945-07#page/n75/mode/2up/search/'pine-thomas
McGilligan (ed.), Pat (1997). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press. pp. 196–197.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
"Fiction House Movie Comics #1". Grand Comics Database.
Fiction House Movie Comics #1 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

Big Town on IMDb
Review at Variety

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[1] "Big Town (1947) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

[2] Hal Erickson. "Big Town (1947) - William C. Thomas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

[3] "Big Town". Afi.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

[4] ttps://archive.org/stream/variety159-1945-07#page/n75/mode/2up/search/'pine-thomas

[5] McGilligan (ed.), Pat (1997). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press. pp. 196–197.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

[6] "Fiction House Movie Comics #1". Grand Comics Database.

[7] Fiction House Movie Comics #1 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)