A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
Acting
Raymond Burr's slimeball dealer steals every scene
Direction
Newman crams LA locations into 78 tight minutes
Production
Real 1949 LA riots as accidental documentary backdrop
Director
Joseph M. Newman
Dennis O'Keefe
Mark Sitko
Gale Storm
Paula Considine
Jeff Chandler
Chief MacRae
Meg Randall
Dottie Jensen
Raymond Burr
Kerric
Marjorie Rambeau
Mrs. Donner
Jeanette Nolan
Major Ross
Mike Mazurki
Hoppe
Will Kuluva
"Little Guy" Decola
David Clarke
Harry
William Frambes
Scoop (as William Page)
Sid Tomack
Mr. Humes
Steve Darrell
Brenn
Clifton Young
Eddie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in six days on a $200,000 budget by Poverty Row studio Republic Pictures, which usually made Westerns.
The actual 1949 LA hospital strike and baby shortage panics made this exploitation shockingly topical—newspapers were running similar stories.
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