Big Town (1947 film)#Comic book adaptation

{{Infobox film

| name = Big Town

| image = Big Town (1947 film poster).jpg

| alt =

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = William C. Thomas

| producer = William H. Pine
William C. Thomas

| screenplay = Daniel Mainwaring
Maxwell Shane

| story = Daniel Mainwaring

| starring = Phillip Reed
Hillary Brooke
Robert Lowery
Veda Ann Borg
Byron Barr
Charles Arnt

| music = Darrell Calker

| cinematography = Fred Jackman Jr.

| editing = Howard A. Smith

| studio = Pine-Thomas Productions

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1947|5|23}}

| runtime = 60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68732/big-town |title=Big Town (1947) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=2015-11-13}}{{cite web|author=Hal Erickson |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/big-town-v5485 |title=Big Town (1947) - William C. Thomas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related |publisher=AllMovie |access-date=2015-11-13}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=25078 |title=Big Town |publisher=Afi.com |access-date=2015-11-13}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety159-1945-07#page/n75/mode/2up/search/'pine-thomas|title = Variety (July 1945)|year = 1945}}

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."{{cite book|url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0z09n7m0&chunk.id=d0e10802&toc.id=d0e10802&brand=ucpress|title=Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s|editor-first=Pat|editor-last= McGilligan |publisher=University of California Press|year=1997|pages=196–197}}

Comic book adaptation

Fiction House Movie Comics #1 (December 1946){{gcdb issue|id=259440|title=Fiction House Movie Comics #1}}{{comicbookdb|type=issue|id=285625|title=Fiction House Movie Comics #1}}

==See also==

Big Town radio series

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0039186|Big Town}}
[https://archive.org/stream/variety165-1947-02#page/n130/mode/1up/search/'pine-thomas Review] at Variety

Category:1947 films

Category:1947 crime drama films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:American crime drama films

Category:Films about journalists

Category:Films adapted into comics

Category:Films based on radio series

Category:Films directed by William C. Thomas

Category:Paramount Pictures films

Category:1940s English-language films

Category:1940s American films

Category:Big Town

Category:English-language crime drama films