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I Cover the War!

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.

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Release : 1937
Rating : 5.8
Studio : Universal Pictures, 
Crew : Director,  Screenplay, 
Cast : John Wayne Gwen Gaze Don Barclay Charles Brokaw James Bush
Genre : War

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Reviews

Greenes
2018/08/30

Please don't spend money on this.

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Baseshment
2018/08/30

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Hayden Kane
2018/08/30

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Billy Ollie
2018/08/30

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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JohnHowardReid
2018/04/25

John Wayne (Bob Adams), Gwen Gaze (Pamela), Don Barclay (Elmer Davis), Pat Somerset (Archie), Major Sam Harris (Colonel Armitage), Charles Brokaw (El Kader/Muffadi), James Bush (Don Adams), Arthur Aylesworth (Logan), Earl Hodgins (Blake), Jack Mack (Graham), Franklyn Parker (Parker), Frank Lackteen (Mustapha), Olaf Hytten (Sir Herbert), Keith Kenneth (sergeant major), Abdulla (Abdul), Richard Tucker (man). Director: ARTHUR LUBIN. Screenplay: George Waggner. Original story: Bernard McConville. Photography: Harry Neumann, Stanley Cortez. Film editors: Charles Craft, Emma Horsley. Art director: E.R. Hickson. Music director: Charles Previn. Technical advisors: Major Sam Harris, Sheikh Al Rowaf. Sound recording: Joe Lapis, Jess Bastian. Associate producer: Paul Malvern. Executive producer: Trem Carr. Copyright 22 June 1937 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. New York opening at the Globe: 1 August 1937. U.S. release: 2 May 1937. U.K. release through General Film Distributors: 17 January 1938. 69 minutes.SYNOPSIS: An Arab revolt in Mesopotamia is crushed by a couple of American newsreel cameramen. COMMENT: Wayne plays with an agreeably light touch, but the script drags a bit - underlined by a ponderous music score - and the direction is largely routine, save for three or four shots doubtless inspired by the photographers. I could be wrong, but my feeling is that Neumann did all the exteriors - California aptly masquerading as Arabia -plus some of the first half interiors, whilst Cortez handled the more spectacular studio stuff, including those extraordinary shots in the film laboratory.

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MartinHafer
2017/01/29

Most of John Wayne's roles before he became a big star were mostly as B-movie cowboys. However, he made a few Bs for Universal in the late 30s and early 40s and these roles were far less cowboy and far more adventure films. While none of these were great films, they were enjoyable. However, "I Cover the War!" is one I could never find until now...and it's available through YouTube.In many ways this is similar to Clark Gable's "Somewhere I'll Find You" as the leading man plays a reporter who is in competition with his brother. In this case, John Wayne plays Bob Adams, a newsreel cinematographer and his brother, Don, is SUPPOSED to be off in college but he quit school to become a newsreel guy like his brother! Both end up in a fictional British colony in North Africa* and Bob does NOT welcome Don...he wants him to have a better and more responsible job. Ultimately, an evil man posing as a newsreel man uses Don for his own ends...and nearly is responsible for wiping out the local British outpost! Can Bob somehow figure all this out, save the day AND get the girl? It's Wayne...so what do you think?!This is an enjoyable formulaic movie with modest B-movie pretenses. In other words, it's a short film with no stars (apart from Wayne) and represents the sort of productions Wayne was doing in his pre- megastar period. Worth seeing if you love Wayne, otherwise an easy one to skip.

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zardoz-13
2013/07/24

John Wayne plays a newsreel photographer in director Arthur Lubin's "I Cover The War" with his usual reckless bravado. Ray Adams (John Wayne) works for an outfit headquartered in London. He winds up in the thick of the action in North Africa where the Arabs stage an uprising against British colonial authority. The British are depicted with respect, honor, and dignity, and "Operation Pacific" scenarist George Waggner and Lubin treat us to one of the earliest examples of the impact of aerial bombing. The scene in question shows the Royal Air Force flying like the cavalry to the aid of their out-numbered colleagues who are trapped by an army of Arabs. Wayne's performance here seems more easy-going than in his other films outside Universal. Lubin must have made him feel comfortable in front of the camera because he was just as affable in Lubin's "California Straight Ahead." "I Cover The War" never wears out its welcome. This madcap adventure comedy was Universal Pictures beat MGM to the big screen with this madcap adventure comedy, but it didn't score at the box office like Jack Conway's "Too Hot to Handle" with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Walter Pidgeon.

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tedg
2006/07/12

Before Stagecoach turned John Wayne into a celebrated wooden actor, he was a an ordinary uncelebrated wooden actor in a series of odd projects. Probably the most interesting of these odd deals is this movie. It doesn't seem to be rentable.In terms of the actual production, its the standard mess, made a bit worse by the fact that you have to portray war and Arabs. There's lots of fun in it though. Wayne is a dummy and there's less wrapping on that. The setup has to do with Brits and Arabs and has plenty of stuff to chew on: occupation, resistance, duped natives, gunrunning, subterfuge... all things that resonate differently now.But what interests me is the folding. It was a great adventure of the industry to discover different means to write themselves and the viewers into the film. All sorts of different things: writers in the story, actors, filmmakers, con men. One of the most interesting to me is the newsroom center, something that has energy that we have in no other place today.A cool slant on that was the newsreel crew. More dangerous, more relevant to the folding notion. Here, Wayne's character is making movies that are fresh and dangerous. There capturing of the images is folded into the drama of the story — no matter that the story is trite.Its a curiosity that to me is more interesting than any of the celebrated Wayne movies.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

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