(1949) Abandoned
CRIME DRAMA
Paula Considine (Gale Storm) stops by to the police station to report her missing sister, Mary. She is then helped and aided by reporter, Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe) who notices a dirty private investigator, Kerric (Raymond Burr) had been following her. And they all go to the morgue, only to find out Paula's sister had already been pronounced dead, labelled as a suicide. Except that, Paula believes her sister is incapable to take her own life, motivating the reporter Mark to seek assistance from his friend who happens to be the DA named McCrae (Jeff Chandler), together exposing a possible illegal baby racket. An illegal operation that involves many people that includes an old lady who hands out bibles, Mrs. Donner (Marjorie Rambeau), another sleaze name DeCola (Will Kuluva) and his right hand man, Hoppe (Mike Mazurki)
Depicting a particular time when there used to be a baby racket except that this is a fictional setting, with a superficial ending. There is though some scenes I can do without, which even with the running time of 1 hour and 19 minutes. I thought what Paula had done was kind of dumb to go out on her own without informing the police about it.
Paula Considine (Gale Storm) stops by to the police station to report her missing sister, Mary. She is then helped and aided by reporter, Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe) who notices a dirty private investigator, Kerric (Raymond Burr) had been following her. And they all go to the morgue, only to find out Paula's sister had already been pronounced dead, labelled as a suicide. Except that, Paula believes her sister is incapable to take her own life, motivating the reporter Mark to seek assistance from his friend who happens to be the DA named McCrae (Jeff Chandler), together exposing a possible illegal baby racket. An illegal operation that involves many people that includes an old lady who hands out bibles, Mrs. Donner (Marjorie Rambeau), another sleaze name DeCola (Will Kuluva) and his right hand man, Hoppe (Mike Mazurki)
Depicting a particular time when there used to be a baby racket except that this is a fictional setting, with a superficial ending. There is though some scenes I can do without, which even with the running time of 1 hour and 19 minutes. I thought what Paula had done was kind of dumb to go out on her own without informing the police about it.