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Night Editor is a 1946 B-movie film noir directed by Henry Levin and based on a popular radio program of the same name. The script for the film was based on a previous radio program episode "Inside Story."
The movie was to be the first in a series of films featuring stories about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at a fictional newspaper, the New York Star, but no other Night Editor films were made.
Night Editor is an anthology television series aired on the DuMont Television Network from March 14 to September 8, 1954. Host Hal Burdick (1893-1978) would introduce a story, the time of which could range from the Civil War to the present day.
Usage examples of "night editor".
He fished in his pocket for a quarter, dialed the local paper and asked for the night editor.
Betty Cutler, the night editor, was an old crow with an under bite She had been pacing and waiting for Brazil, and swooped in on him.
Once, on a particularly difficult night, I reported Vince's insubordination to David Hopkinson, the night editor, who was himself a formidable figure when he chose to be.
Late one night Mike made print-out of new code via Lunaya Pravda's facilities, and night editor turned roll over to another comrade who converted it into a very small roll of film and passed it along in turn, and none ever knew what they handled or why.