City of Missing Girls
Cast & Crew
Elmer Clifton
H. B. Warner
Astrid Allwyn
John Archer
Sarah Padden
Philip Van Zandt
Film Details
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Synopsis
Captain McVeigh, a veteran big city police detective, is vexed by a series of mysterious disappearances of young women, some of whom, including the latest victim, Thalia Arnold, have turned up dead. Although he is unable to prove it, McVeigh believes that all the women met with foul play at the hands of nightclub operator and Crescent School of Fine Arts owner King Peterson, who is using the school as a front for a recruiting center for his nightclub. One day, Mrs. Randolph reports the disappearance of her granddaughter Pauline to Assistant District Attorney James Horton, who adds her name to the growing list of missing women. While Horton begins his investigation, ace newspaper reporter Nora Page, who is smitten with Horton, makes life difficult for him by writing articles criticizing the department's inaction. Unaware that her theatrical agent father, Joseph Thompson, is in league with Peterson, Nora begins her own investigation into Pauline's disappearance and follows her leads to Mrs. Randolph's house. There Nora discovers Pauline getting into an automobile, and she quickly jots down the license plate number of the car. Inside the house, Mrs. Randolph tells Nora that Pauline has returned safely and is pursuing an acting career with her friend Mary Phillips. Soon after, Pauline is found dead, and the women employed at Peterson's nightclub are brought in to the police station for a line-up. Mary is asked to identify the woman who drove Pauline to the Crescent School, but as the driver, Kate Nelson, is in hiding, the line-up proves fruitless. In an apparent break in the case, Horton receives a telephone call from Kate, who is posing as an informant, and he falls for her trap. When they meet, Kate throws herself into Horton's arms and a picture of the scene is secretly taken. Kate is later found dead, and with the picture as evidence, Horton is framed for the murder. Horton is about to resign when Nora identifies the woman in the picture as the woman who was last seen with Pauline, providing Horton with his first real lead. Later, without consulting Horton but hoping to help him, Nora impersonates a prospective Crescent School student and tries to infiltrate Peterson's racket. Unknown to Nora, one of Peterson's men recognizes her as Thompson's daughter. Believing that Thompson, who has expressed his desire to get out of the racket, has planted Nora at the school to protect himself, Peterson decides to embarrass the two by arranging to have father and daughter discover each other at Nora's audition. Meanwhile, Horton arrests William Short, the man Peterson hired to photograph him, and Short tells Horton that Peterson talked about killing Kate. Back at Peterson's nightclub, Nora's father is about to call the police when Peterson shoots him. Horton and the police arrive in time to save Nora, and Peterson is convicted of murder and sent to serve a life term in prison. With the case closed, Nora promises to stop writing about Horton, and Horton professes his love for her.
Director
Elmer Clifton
Cast
H. B. Warner
Astrid Allwyn
John Archer
Sarah Padden
Philip Van Zandt
George Rosener
Katherine Crawford
Patricia Knox
Walter Long
Gale Storm
Boyd Irwin
Danny Webb
Crew
Arthur Alexander
Max Alexander
James Altweis
Elmer Clifton
Oliver Drake
Charles Henkel Jr.
Edward Linden
Geo. M. Merrick
Fred Preble
George Rosener
George Rosener
Clifford Ruberg
Alfred Stern
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Notes
Actress Gale Storm's name is misspelled "Gail" in the onscreen credits of this film.
