Cover Up

Maid Hilda (Doro Merande) seems the boss as home-for-Christmas Anita (Barbara Britton) and her family (Art Baker, Helen Spring and Ann E. Todd as dad, mom and little sister) await handsome insurance investigator Sam (Dennis O’Keefe), who arrived on the same train, early in Cover Up, 1949.

Director Alfred E. Green’s opening, from an original screenplay by Jerome Odlum and Jonathan Rix, played perfectly sweet, as Anita (Barbara Britton) arrives for Christmas in her midwestern home town, charmed by Sam (Dennis O’Keefe), who doesn’t mention his business, in Cover Up, 1949.

Relaxed big-city insurance investigator Sam (Dennis O’Keefe) finds his tone matched by sheriff Larry (William Bendix), who is however far more cagey, as he begins looking into a small-town Christmastime suicide, Alfred E. Green directing, in Cover Up, 1949.