Directed by:
Joseph M. NewmanScreenplay:
Irwin GielgudCinematography:
William H. DanielsCast:
Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Marjorie Rambeau, Raymond Burr, Will Kuluva, Jeff Chandler, Meg Randall, Jeanette Nolan, Mike Mazurki, Edwin Max, Frank Cady (more)Plots(1)
Starkly photographed in semi-documentary style by William Daniels, this thinly budgeted film packs plenty of action and provides startlingly snappy dialog from first to last. Storm appears in a damp, grim Los Angeles looking for her missing sister and enlisting the aid of newsman O'Keefe, who discovers the vanished girl in the morgue, listed as an "unidentified suicide." Believing the girl has been murdered, O'Keefe launches a harrowing investigation. He turns up a baby-stealing ring fronted by calculating Rambeau and abetted by sleazy private detective Burr, who gives a marvelous performance as does the gang's chief goon, Mike Mazurki. A fast-paced film noir gem. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Gale Storm
USA
Best movies:
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Marjorie Rambeau
USA
Best movies:
The Rains Came (1939)
War of the Wildcats (1943)
Niagara (1953)
Raymond Burr
Canada
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Will Kuluva
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Jeff Chandler
USA
Best movies:
The Jayhawkers (1959)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Two Flags West (1950)
Meg Randall
USA
Best movies:
Criss Cross (1949)
Jeanette Nolan
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Big Heat (1953)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Edwin Max
USA
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Frank Cady
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Steve Darrell
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
To Each His Own (1946)
Clifton Young
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Possessed (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
David Clarke
USA
Best movies:
Adam's Rib (1949)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)
William Tannen
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Charles Jordan
UK
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Edge of the City (1957)
Jerry Hausner
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)