Abandoned (1949)
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Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe), investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola (Will Kuluva). Paula bravely offers to act as bait to draw the criminals out, a formidable task given the presence of such secondary villains as Raymond Burr and Mike Mazurki. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Dennis O'Keefe - Mark Sitko
- Jeff Chandler - Chief McRae
- Raymond Burr - Kerric
- Jeanette Nolan - Major Ross
- Will Kuluva - Little Guy DeCola
- William Page - Scoop
- Perc Launders - Dowd
- Clifton Young - Eddie
- William Frambes - Scoop
- Marcella Cisney - Nurse Kay
- Isabel Withers - Mrs. Humes
- Dick Ryan - 3rd plainclothes man
- Maudie Prickett - Nurse Ferris
- Howard Mitchell - Judge
- Charles Jordan - Charlie
- Frank Cady - City Editor
- Mary George - Nurse Ward
- Sally Corner - Nurse Tripp
- Gale Storm - Paula Considine
- Meg Randall - Dottie Jensen
- Marjorie Rambeau - Mrs. Donner
- Mike Mazurki - Hoppe
- David Clarke - Harry
- Sid Tomack - Mr. Humes
- Steven Darrell - Brenn
- Ruth Sanderson - Mrs. Spence
- Jerry Hausner - Orderly
- William Tannen - Taxi driver
- Earl Smith - Sammy
- Felice Richmond - Telephone operator
- Virginia Mullen - Nurse Sully
- Edwin Max - Morrie
- Bruce Hamilton - Doc Tilson
- Bert Conway - Delaney
- Billy Gray - Boy leader
- Edward Clark - Clerk
- Director(s):
- Joseph Newman
- Writer(s):
- William Bowers, Irwin Gielgud
- Producer(s):
- Jerry Bresler
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