Behind the Mike
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Cast & Crew
Sidney Salkow
William Gargan
Judith Barrett
Don Wilson
Sterling Holloway
William Davidson
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George Hayes, a pugnacious radio producer in New York, is fired when he belts Cyrus Wittles, sponsor of the "Crunchie-Munchie Hour," during a rehearsal. He leaves the city for a job as manager of WBAM, a Valley Falls radio station, but mistakenly wanders into WVOX, where he meets Jane Arledge, an attractive and sharp-tongued program manager. The station is owned by local magnate Harry Fox. Jane leads George to WBAM, which is housed in an abandoned stable. Its one employee is a youth named Tommy Astor. Boasting to Jane that he will have WBAM on its feet in a week, George elicits the help of his friend, Tiny Martin, a New York radio announcer. Although the town's merchants are skeptical about WBAM's prospects, they are anxious to contravene the efforts of Fox, who controls corrupt Mayor Applegate, who is up for re-election. George then listens in on a secret meeting of the merchants regarding the election and broadcasts their suspicions of Fox and Applegate, causing them to repudiate the broadcast. When George threatens to repeat the broadcast, he angers Jane, who believes the accusations against Fox are unfounded, and she and Tiny persuade George to return to New York. While George waits for his train, Jane learns that Fox and Applegate are scheming to embezzle funds from the town and that Fox has bought WBAM to stop George. With Tiny's help, Jane rushes to WBAM and reads George's indictment of Fox and Applegate, adding her newfound evidence against them. George hears the broadcast and, fearing for Jane's safety, tries to stop her, but Jane and Tiny resist him. The exposé prompts the townspeople to run Fox and Applegate out of town. George realizes Jane loves him and promises never to lose his temper again. Wittles then wires George, asking him to return to his old job, and he and Jane leave for New York. George quickly slips back into his old temper, but is curtailed by Jane's kind reproach.
Director
Sidney Salkow
Cast
William Gargan
Judith Barrett
Don Wilson
Sterling Holloway
William Davidson
Gerald Oliver Smith
Charles Brokaw
Spencer Charters
Grady Sutton
Harlan Briggs
Roy Atwell
Jerry Mandy
Cliff Nazarro
Ralph Remley
Arthur Aylsworth
Si Jenks
Don Barclay
Robert Fischer
Monty Collins
Carol Tevis
John Kelly
Charles Williams
Deane Janis
Minerva Urecal
Henry Roquemore
Ferris Taylor
George Cleveland
Jack Clifford
Billy Engle
George Oovey
P. J. Kelly
Lee Prather
Walter Wills
Broderick O'farrell
Ralph Lewis
Henry Boreman
Lario Child Orchestra
Crew
Harold Adamson
Thomas Ahearn
Elwood Bredell
Lou Brock
Lou Brock
Walton Butterfield
Philip Cahn
Charles Carroll
Ed Case
Howard Christie
Lester Cole
Dan Fish
Edward Freulich
Amy Gaunt
Maury Gertsman
Frank Gorback
Charles Henderson
Moree Herring
Ross Hoffman
Alan Jones
Roman Jones
Vernon Keays
Frank Madigan
Jimmy Mchugh
A. Dorian Otvos
Jack Rixey
Gay Stevens
Barry Trivers
Lloyd Ward
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A. Dorian Otvos, Lester Cole and Gay Stevens are listed in the Universal Production Cost files at the USC Cinema-Television Library under continuity, and Otvos and Cole are listed in the initial Hollywood Reporter production chart as screenwriters. Tentative writing credits in Screen Achievements Bulletin list Otvos, Cole, Stevens, Barry Trivers and Lou Brock as contributing writers. The exact nature of their contributions is not known. In the copyright records, a typed-in credit for Richard Wormser was marked for deletion.
