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I Cover the War!

(1937)

July 4, 1937‱ 1h 8m
51%
TMDB Score

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.

Arthur Lubin

Director

Top Billed Cast

JW

John Wayne

Bob Adams

GG

Gwen Gaze

Pamela Armitage

DB

Don Barclay

Elmer Davis

CB

Charles Brokaw

El Kadar / Muffadhi

JB

James Bush

Don Adams

PS

Pat Somerset

Captain Archie Culvert

AA

Arthur Aylesworth

Dave Logan

SH

Sam Harris

Colonel Hugh Armitage

OH

Olaf Hytten

Sir Herbert

FL

Frank Lackteen

Mustapha