Cover Up is a 1949 black-and-white mystery film written by and starring Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...

. O'Keefe is credited as screenwriter Jonathan Rix. The murder mystery takes place during the Christmas season.

Plot

In a small Midwestern town a man is found dead. Dennis O'Keefe plays an insurance investigator looking into the apparent suicide. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best (Bendix). Finally, attractive local girl Anita (Britton) breaks the silence and helps investigator Donovan solve the case.

Cast

• Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...
  
   as Sam Donovan
• William Bendix
  William Bendix
  William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley...
  
   as Sheriff Larry Best
• Barbara Britton
  Barbara Britton
  Barbara Britton was an American film and television actress.She was the first actress to play Laura Petrie on television on the pilot program, Head of the Family, which was retooled and became The Dick Van Dyke Show with the role taken over by Mary Tyler Moore. The California native signed a film...
  
   as Anita Weatherby
• Art Baker as Stu Weatherby