Film
Four films based on the radio series were made by Paramount Pictures' Pine-Thomas Productions studio: I Cover Big Town (1947), Big Town (1947), Big Town After Dark (1947), and Big Town Scandal (1948). All four films starred Phillip Reed as Wilson and Hillary Brooke as Lorelei, all were based on radio- and/or screenplays by Maxwell Shane, and all were produced and directed by William C. Thomas.
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