Bunco Squad (1950)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Robert Sterling	...	Det. Sgt. Steve Johnson
	Joan Dixon	...	Grace Bradshaw / Bride in film
	Ricardo Cortez	...	Tony Weldon aka Anthony Wells
	Douglas Fowley	...	Det. Sgt. Mack McManus
	Elisabeth Risdon	...	Jessica Royce
	Marguerite Churchill	...	Barbara Madison
	John Kellogg	...	Fred Reed
	Bernadene Hayes	...	Princess Liane
	Robert Bice	...	Drake, aka The Swami
	Vivien Oakland	...	Annie Cobb
	Dante	...	Dante the Magician
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Kathleen Ellis	...	Julie (unconfirmed)
	Jewel Rose	...	Young Widow (unconfirmed)
	Cecil Weston	...	Susan - Mrs. Royce's Maid (unconfirmed)

Storyline

Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section of the Los Angeles Police Department which is assigned solely to checking on the activities of fortune tellers, swamis, palmists, and other occult societies, missing only Sciencetology. The primary story has L.A. police detectives Steve Johnson and 'Mack' McManus tracking down a wave of suicides they think have been influenced by a swindler-murderer Anthony Wells. The latter runs a pretentious house staffed with occultists across the board, and is trying to embezzle from Jessica Royle, a wealthy widow whose son was killed in action in World War II. Johnson uses his fiancée/actress, Grace Bradshaw, as an undercover operative to get inside information. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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