Bunco Squad (1950)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1950-09-01
Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Writers: Reginald Taviner , George Callahan
Language: English
Stars: Robert Sterling , Joan Dixon , Ricardo Cortez , Douglas Fowley , Elisabeth Risdon , Marguerite Churchill , John Kellogg , Bernadene Hayes , Robert Bice , Vivien Oakland
Runtime: 67 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Bunco Squad (Germany) , Mensaje de otro mundo (Spain) , Mensaje del otro mundo (Spain) , Os Mortos não Voltam (Brazil) , Bunco Squad (United States of America) , Bunco Squad , Bunco Squad (United Kingdom) , Bunco Squad (Australia) , Cita siniestra (Mexico)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0042289