I Cover the War is a 1937 American drama action film directed by Arthur Lubin for Universal Pictures, starring John Wayne. It was one of a series of non-Westerns Wayne made for Universal.
Plot
Two newsreel cameramen (John Wayne, Don Barclay) are sent to photograph a bandit sheik in the desert.
Cast
John Wayne as Bob Adams
Gwen Gaze as Pamela Armitage
Don Barclay as Elmer Davis
Charles Brokaw as El Kadar / Muffadi
James Bush as Don Adams
Pat Somerset as Captain Archie Culvert
Richard Tucker Army Officer
Sam Harris as Colonel Hugh Armitage (as Major Sam Harris) Olaf Hytten as Sir Herbert Arthur Aylesworth 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".