Abandoned (1949)
Engrossing melodrama.
30 September 2001
Warning: Spoilers
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Decent, worth viewing melodrama about a reporter who helps a girl from a small town search for her missing sister in the big city. The search leads to them uncovering a black market baby racket. Stand out performance from Raymond Burr as a seedy private eye involved in the racket. He was always quite good at playing heavies in these kind of films and he is excellent here. Also look for a very young looking Will Kuluva as a mobster. The film gets a little a far fetched though towards the end; Why would such clever crooks try to bump off a girl and make it look an suicide the exact same way they bumped off her sister. Certainly any good police force would suspect foul play rather than suicide.

The ads for this film show headline reading "GANGSTER FOUND SHOT." No gangster is found shot in the film. Perhaps this is an example of "ads first, movie later"?
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