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. 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 her 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."
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Bibliography Tucker, David C. Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. McFarland, 2018.
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