City of Missing Girls
1941 film by Elmer Clifton
- 27 March 1941 (1941-03-27)
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City of Missing Girls is a 1941 American crime drama film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring H. B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn and John Archer.[1][2] It was produced as an independent second feature.
Plot
The police led by Captain McVeigh and the Assistant District Attorney James J. Horton are baffled by the disappearances of several young girls with some being found dead. Intrepid female newspaper reporter Nora Page's investigations reveal a link between the girls and the Crescent School of Fine Arts owned by gangster King Peterson, who is using the school as a front for a recruiting center for his nightclub "entertainers". Things become more complex when Nora's father is connected with Peterson and her boyfriend James Horton is photographed in embarrassing circumstances with a woman found murdered after the photo was taken. Peterson shoots Nora's father to death in front of witnesses, and we conclude with she and Horton reading a newspaper article about Peterson's execution.
Cast
- H. B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh
- Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page
- John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton
- Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph
- Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson
- George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan
- Kathryn Crawford as Helen Whitney
- Patricia Knox as Kate Nelson
- Walter Long as Police Officer Larkin
- Gale Storm as Mary Phillips
- Boyd Irwin as Joseph 'Joe' Thompson
- Danny Webb as William 'Bill' Short, Photographer
- Herb Vigran as Danny Mason
- Lloyd Ingraham as District Attorney Fowler
- Dorothy Granger as Showgirl
- Lassie Lou Ahern as Nightclub Performer
- Donald Curtis as Reporter
Critical reception
TV Guide called it "An awkward murder mystery."[3]
References
Bibliography
- Tucker, David C. Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. McFarland, 2018.
External links
- City of Missing Girls at IMDb
- City of Missing Girls is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Elmer Clifton
- Her Official Fathers (1917)
- The Flame of Youth (1917)
- High Speed (1917)
- The Midnight Man (1917)
- A Stormy Knight (1917)
- Flirting with Death (1917)
- The Man Trap (1917)
- The High Sign (1917)
- The Flash of Fate (1918)
- Brace Up (1918)
- The Two-Soul Woman (1918)
- The Guilt of Silence (1918)
- Smashing Through (1918)
- The Eagle (1918)
- Winner Takes All (1918)
- Battling Jane (1918)
- Kiss or Kill (1918)
- The Hope Chest (1918)
- Boots (1919)
- Peppy Polly (1919)
- I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
- Nugget Nell (1919)
- Nobody Home (1919)
- Turning the Tables (1919)
- Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920)
- Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
- Six Cylinder Love (1923)
- The Warrens of Virginia (1924)
- Daughters of the Night (1924)
- Wives at Auction (1926)
- The Virgin Wife (1926)
- The Truth About Men (1926)
- The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
- Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1928)
- Beautiful But Dumb (1928)
- Virgin Lips (1928)
- Tropical Nights (1928)
- The Bride of the Colorado (1928)
- The Devil's Apple Tree (1929)
- Maid to Order (1931)
- Pals of the Range (1935)
- Cyclone of the Saddle (1935)
- Fighting Caballero (1935)
- Captured in Chinatown (1935)
- Rough Riding Ranger (1935)
- Rip Roaring Riley (1935)
- Skull and Crown (1935)
- Custer's Last Stand (1936, serial)
- Wolves of the Sea (1936)
- Wildcat Trooper (1936)
- Gambling with Souls (1936)
- Ten Laps to Go (1936)
- Death in the Air (1937)
- Mile-a-Minute-Love (1937)
- Slaves in Bondage (1937)
- Assassin of Youth (1937)
- The Secret of Treasure Island (1938, serial)
- Paroled from the Big House (1938)
- The Stranger from Arizona (1938)
- Law of the Texan (1938)
- California Frontier (1938)
- Crashing Thru (1939)
- Isle of Destiny (1940)
- City of Missing Girls (1941)
- I'll Sell My Life (1941)
- Hard Guy (1941)
- Swamp Woman (1941)
- Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
- The Old Chisholm Trail (1942)
- The Sundown Kid (1942)
- The Blocked Trail (1943)
- Days of Old Cheyenne (1943)
- Frontier Law (1943)
- The Return of the Rangers (1943)
- Boss of Rawhide (1943)
- Captain America (1944, serial)
- Guns of the Law (1944)
- The Pinto Bandit (1944)
- Spook Town (1944)
- Seven Doors to Death (1944)
- Gangsters of the Frontier (1944)
- Youth Aflame (1944)
- Dead or Alive (1944)
- The Whispering Skull (1944)
- Marked for Murder (1945)
- Swing, Cowboy, Swing (1946)
- The Judge (1949)
- Not Wanted (1949)
- Red Rock Outlaw (1949)
- The Silver Bandit (1950)
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