I COVER THE WAR

PRODUCED BY TREM CARR
DIRECTED BY ARTHUR LUBIN
UNIVERSAL PICTURES

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INFPRMATION FROM IMDb

Plot Summary

Bob Adams (John Wayne), 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 (Charles Brokaw), bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela (Gwen Gaze), saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don (James Bush) 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.

Full Cast

John Wayne .... Bob Adams
Gwen Gaze .... Pamela Armitage
Don Barclay .... Elmer Davis
Pat Somerset .... Captain Archie Culvert
Charles Brokaw .... El Kadar/Muffadi
James Bush .... Don Adams
Arthur Aylesworth .... Logan
Jack Mack .... Graham
Franklin Parker .... Parker (as Franklyn Parker)
Sam Harris .... Colonel Armitage (as Major Sam Harris)
Earle Hodgins .... Blake
Frank Lackteen .... Mustapha
Keith Hitchcock .... Sergeant Major (as Keith Kenneth)
Olaf Hytten .... Sir Herbert
Abdulla .... Abdul
Richard Tucker .... Army Officer

Filming Location

Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA

Hi,
This was Duke's 4th. film of a 6 picture Universal deal,
and it was not a happy time ,the films were mediocre,
but things were about to change, because, just after
Duke returned to REPUBLIC, for THE THREE MESQUITEERS,
and thereafter STAGECOACH

Athur Lubin, whose films with Abbot and Costello, saved UNIVERSAL
from going bankrupt, he was promoted to director of the epic
Phantom of the Opera, which was a huge success.
However, he wasn't quite so successful with the films, he made with Duke.
There were 4 films,

CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT AHEAD
I COVER THE WAR
IDOL OF THE CROWDS
ADVENTURE'S END

The action films, were entertaining, but were cheaply made, and proved to be
disappointing at the box office

While the availability box on IMDb indicates that this movie is not available in any format (the box is sponsored by Amazon), we found it at Hollywood's Attic ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), although it is only available on VHS.

I have not yet seen this movie, so cannot offer any other comments about it.

Chester :newyear:

I remember seeing this film on tv looooong ago. There was a scene where Duke and his cameraman were faking Jap planes being shot down. They lit wooden models and filmed them sliding down a wire as they crashed in flames in a big wooden bucket of water, for lack of any other stories to film at the time!

Hi

I bought it from the Film Society a year or so ago. It's not a bad film nor a great one. The villain is a lttle man who looks ludicrous. There is also a man named Abdullah who if I remember walks into a tent looks around and go out never to be seen again.

This man was reputed to have been adopted by Victor McLaglen when he served in Bagdhad after the Ist World War.


Regards

Arthyr