City of Missing Girls

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City of Missing Girls
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Directed by Elmer Clifton
Written byElmer Clifton
Oliver Drake
George Rosener
Produced by Max Alexander
George M. Merrick
Starring H. B. Warner
Astrid Allwyn
John Archer
Cinematography Edward Linden
Edited by Charles Henkel Jr.
Music by Marvin Hatley
Production
company
Merrick-Alexander Productions
Distributed bySelect Attractions
Release date
  • 27 March 1941 (1941-03-27)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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

Critical reception

TV Guide called it "An awkward murder mystery." [3]

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References

  1. "City of Missing Girls (1941)". BFI. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019.
  2. "City of Missing Girls (1941) - Elmer Clifton | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  3. "City of Missing Girls". TV Guide.

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