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Missing Witnesses

5.5 /10

19371 h 1 m

United States

139 people rated

The daring of the racketeers all working for one organization in an East Coast city, leads the Governor to create a new undercover law agency formed to combat the gangsters, and to find witnesses against them. Heading the agency is the Special Prosecutor's aide, Inspector Lane, and his assistants, Emmet White and Bull Regan. Mary Norton, who Bull has fallen in love with, is the secretary for one of the legitimate enterprises ran by Ward Sturgis, the head of the crime ring. Mary had accidentally learned of this, and had just managed to escape with her life from his yacht. Sturgis is found dead floating in the bay with several bullet holes in his body. Mary is the lead suspect and Bull is assigned the job of finding and arresting her, but she gives him the slip. When he does catch up with her again, he rescues her from the very-much-alive Ward Sturgis, who faked his death by having a lookalike killed.

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Jay Arghh

29/05/2023 22:28

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16/11/2022 13:43

Missing Witnesses

Maemma

16/11/2022 01:47

When the mob goons bust up shop owners that won't pay them off, the guvna appoints Inspector Robert Lane (John Litel) to head up the special task force. Officer Regan (Dick Purcell) gets assigned to the team, but he keeps screwing up the investigation with his stubbornness and lack of attention. and witnesses keep backing out of testifying, fearing for their families. and how is Mary (Virginia Dale) mixed up in this? this one is pretty good. only 61 minutes, but they stuff a lot into those few, precious minutes. it's pretty low budget, but not so bad. Directed by Bill Clemens. he directed a bunch of Torchy, Falcons, and Nancy Drew films.

judiasamba

16/11/2022 01:47

Gang crimes and a corrupt system plague New York City. The Governor creates a new investigative squad led by straight arrow Inspector Robert L. Lane. Hot-head copper Bull Regan is one of his investigators who is taken with secretary Mary Norton. She comes to them with information about her boss Ward Sturgis who she suspects to be a secret mob boss. The investigation is not quite as compelling when Mary dumps all the information on their laps. It's a literal info dump. That's not good. The turn does get a little interesting. I do wonder if this would be more interesting if Mary's the protagonist. She does most of the investigative work anyways. Bull should be the side kick. At least, that would be an interesting entry into the WB crime dramas. This is only a functional B-movie.

Puneet Motwani

16/11/2022 01:47

Reworking the plot of The Bureau Of Mssing Persons, Missing Witnesses has a new organized crime squad being put together by the NYPD under Inspector John Litel. As his chief investigator Litel picks Dick Purcell who is known for his strong arm methods. To accommodate shorter time lenth the original movie script was cut even unto the bone with a lot of holes left in the story. Purcell's a bit thick and is really being driven batty by chief missing witness Virginia Dale. I did like the performance of movie veteran Raymond Hatton as a stooli who gets what stoolies usually get. Below par B film from the brothers Warner.

Gloria_Kakudji

16/11/2022 01:31

This "Ripped from the headlines" Warner Brother B movie is written and directed telegraphically and seems to be as much a tract on police procedures as a story. John Litel is the crusading attorney, appointed by the governor to take on the big racketeers; Dick Purcell is the police detective who's more brawn than brains. The actual course of the story advances more by means of newspaper headlines flashed on the screen. Yet, given the constraints of telling the story in an hour, director William Clemens does a very competent job with the talented cast he's been handed. The reality of the rackets at the time lends an immediacy to the proceedings that lifts this one out of the ordinary.

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