I Cover the War is a 1937 American drama action film directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures, starring John Wayne. It was one of a series of non-Westerns Wayne made for Universal.
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.
Reception The New York Times called it an "ingeniously romantic fable".THE SCREEN:By FRANK S. NUGENT. New York Times August 2, 1937: 10.
Variety gave the film a negative review and described it as a "sketchy production with unimpressive backgrounds." It criticised the "unimaginative story" and commented that the "acting is uniformly stiff", but noted that the film "should prove to be dashingly appealing to juveniles" and would find an audience who are "not particular about their kind of entertainment."
See also John Wayne filmography
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I Cover the War t BFI