Month: January 2026

Night Editor started life as a popular radio show supposedly telling stories inspired by listeners’ letters. This 1946 movie spin-off, based on the episode titled Inside Story, was meant to be the first of a series. But that never came to be, and so we have only this as a suggestion of what might have been. Tales from the deep memories of old newspaper hands is the big idea. And after some scene-setting in the offices of the New York Star, where the night editor and other unfortunates working the graveyard shift play cards, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, director Henry Levin’s film starts properly. It tells the story of Tony Cochrane (William … Read more