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I Cover the War!

"DRAMA FOR HIS NEWSREEL CAMERA!"

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.

Top Cast

  • John Wayne

    John Wayne

    Bob Adams

  • Gwen Gaze

    Gwen Gaze

    Pamela Armitage

  • Don Barclay

    Don Barclay

    Elmer Davis

  • Charles Brokaw

    Charles Brokaw

    El Kadar / Muffadhi

  • James Bush

    James Bush

    Don Adams

  • Pat Somerset

    Pat Somerset

    Captain Archie Culvert

  • Arthur Aylesworth

    Arthur Aylesworth

    Dave Logan

  • Sam Harris

    Sam Harris

    Colonel Hugh Armitage

  • Olaf Hytten

    Olaf Hytten

    Sir Herbert

Overview

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.

Rating

5.1 / 10
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