Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket.
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Title: Abandoned (1949)
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| Dennis O'Keefe | ... | Mark Sitko | |
| Gale Storm | ... | Paula Considine | |
| Jeff Chandler | ... | Chief McRae | |
| 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 | |
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William Frambes | ... | Scoop (as William Page) |
| Sid Tomack | ... | Mr. Humes | |
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Perc Launders | ... | Dowd |
| Steve Darrell | ... | Brenn | |
| Clifton Young | ... | Eddie | |
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An expose of the baby-profiteering racket as told through the story of an unwed mother whose family and friends start an investigation as to the whereabouts of her baby. This leads to and through an organized gang led by a society matron. The girl is found dead, and while it looks like a suicide, the girl's sister and a newspaper reporter think it is murder. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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black market baby | pot boiler | female gang leader | cigarette smoking | police chief |Taglines:
NO NAME FOR HER BABY...only a PRICE! (original posters and print ads-mostly caps)Parents Guide:
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The main title theme for this movie is the famous Miklos Rosza score from The Killers (1946) released 3 years earlier. See more »Quotes
Kerric: [to Mrs. Donner] I was just thinking how nice life used to be when I stuck to blackmail and petty larceny.See more »
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EnglishRelease Date:
22 December 1949 (Mexico) See more »Also Known As:
Abandoned Woman See more »Filming Locations:
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Okay, Dennis Okeefe and Gale Storm deliver competent performances and Marjorie Rambeau is effective as the matronly but menacing madam baby broker, but this movie is surely most memorable as the sole instance in which a young Raymond Burr (merely stout here, but still not thin) gets the s$#@ kicked out of him, which alone makes it worth the price of admission. Painfully corny narrative framing sequence at the beginning and the end (where there is a big unintentional laugh), but by and large a straightforward and enjoyable minor noir. At times a bit preachy perhaps and hardly a masterpiece but worth a look when it pops up on TCM late night.