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28 October 1949 (USA) moreTagline:
No name for her baby... only a Price!Plot:
Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Quick and dirty crawl through babies-for-sale racket moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dennis O'Keefe | ... | Mark Sitko |
| Gale Storm | ... | Paula Considine |
| Marjorie Rambeau | ... | Mrs. Leona Donner |
| Raymond Burr | ... | Kerric |
| Will Kuluva | ... | Little Guy Decola |
| Jeff Chandler | ... | Chief MacRae |
| Meg Randall | ... | Dottie Jensen |
| Jeanette Nolan | ... | Major Ross |
 | David Clarke | ... | Harry, Mrs. Donner's Chauffeur |
| Mike Mazurki | ... | Hoppe |
| Sid Tomack | ... | Humes, missing persons office clerk |
| Ruth Sanderson | ... | Mrs. Spence |
| William Frambes | ... | Scoop, cub reporter (as William Page) |
| Perc Launders | ... | Detective Dowd |
| Steve Darrell | ... | Detective Brenn |
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In Abandoned's opening shot, that iconic edifice, the Los Angeles City Hall, looms menacingly into the night sky. From then on, it's a fast, rough ride through a brutal baby-adoption racket. Gale Storm is best remembered (if at all) as TV's My Little Margie, but she co-starred in a few noirs like Underworld Story and Between Midnight and Dawn; Abandoned is the best of them. She's come to town hunting for her vanished sister, knowing only that there's an out-of-wedlock baby girl involved. Storm links up with Dennis O'Keefe, a newspaper man, and Raymond Burr, a private detective supposedly hired by the missing girl's father back east (an enigmatic specter hanging over the story: Storm confides that her sister left home because "he wouldn't leave us alone"). Turns out that Sis was murdered for developing maternal instincts after having giving the baby up. The web of baby-nappers includes grandmotherly but lethal Marjorie Rambeau, some even less savory characters behind her, and, of course, Burr. Abandoned, despite its Hollywood-"happy" finish, stands as one of the grittier offerings in the noir cycle (Burr's being tortured with matches is one especially painful speck of grit).