I Cover the War!

{{Infobox film

| name = I Cover the War

| image = I Cover the War 1937.JPG

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Arthur Lubin

| producer = Trem Carr
Paul Malvern

| writer =

| screenplay = George Waggner

| story = Bernard McConville

| starring = John Wayne

| cinematography = Stanley Cortez
Harry Neumann

| editing = Charles Craft
Erma Horsley

| studio = Universal Pictures

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{film date|1937|7|4}}

| runtime = 68 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

I Cover the War is a 1937 American drama action film directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures, starring John Wayne.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qceCAAAQBAJ&q=%22I+Cover+the+War%22+John+Wayne&pg=PA86|title=John Wayne: The Life and Legend|first=Scott|last=Eyman|date=April 21, 2015|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781439199596|access-date=April 6, 2019|via=Google Books}} It was one of a series of non-Westerns Wayne made for Universal.{{Cite magazine|magazine=Diabolique Magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/the-cinema-of-arthur-lubin/|date=14 September 2019|title=The Cinema of Arthur Lubin}}

Plot

Two newsreel cameramen are sent to photograph a bandit sheik in the desert.

Cast

John Wayne as Bob Adams
Gwen Gaze as Pamela Armitage
Don Barclay as Elmer Davis
Charles Brokaw as El Kadar / Muffadi
James Bush as Don Adams
Pat Somerset as Captain Archie Culvert
Richard Tucker Army Officer
Sam Harris as Colonel Hugh Armitage (as Major Sam Harris)
Olaf Hytten as Sir Herbert
Arthur Aylesworth as Logan
Franklin Parker as Parker (as Franklyn Paker)

Production

In February 1937 Trem Carr announced the film would start March 1.SCREEN NOTES: Of Local Origin Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. February 13, 1937: 9.British Army Co-operates in Making Picture Los Angeles Times February 14, 1937: C3.