''I Cover the War'' is a 1937 American

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action film directed by

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for Universal Pictures, starring

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. It was one of a series of non-Westerns Wayne made for Universal.

Plot

Two newsreel cameramen (

, Don Barclay) are sent to photograph a bandit sheik in the desert.

Cast

as Bob Adams *

Gwen Gaze Alta Gwendolyn Gaze (6 September 1915 – 29 August 2010) was an American-based film actress (1937–1943), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Gaze was a graduate of Pasadena Junior College in California and the Royal Academy of Drama ...

as Pamela Armitage * Don Barclay as Elmer Davis * Charles Brokaw as El Kadar / Muffadi * James Bush as Don Adams *

Pat Somerset Pat Somerset (28 February 1897 – 20 April 1974) was an English stage and film actor. Biography Born Patrick Holme-Sumner, after appearing in some British silent films early in his career, he moved to the United States. In 1922 he starred on ...

as Captain Archie Culvert * Richard Tucker Army Officer * Sam Harris as Colonel Hugh Armitage (as Major Sam Harris) *

Olaf Hytten Olaf Hytten (3 March 1888 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1955. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, while sitting in his car ...

as Sir Herbert *

Arthur Aylesworth Arthur Preston Aylesworth (August 12, 1883 – June 26, 1946) was an American stage and film actor. Early years Aylesworth was born in Apponaug, Rhode Island, to a military family; his father and his grandfather graduated from the United ...

as Logan * Franklin Parker as Parker (as Franklyn Paker)

Production

In February 1937 Trem Carr announced the film would start March 1.

Reception

The ''New York Times'' called it an "ingeniously romantic fable".THE SCREEN:By FRANK S. NUGENT. New York Times August 2, 1937: 10.

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