City of Missing Girls

City of Missing Girls
Directed by	Elmer Clifton
Written by	Elmer Clifton (story) Oliver Drake (screenplay) and George Rosener (screenplay)
Produced by	Max Alexander (producer) George M. Merrick (producer)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Edward Linden
Edited by	Charles Henkel Jr.
Music by	Marvin Hatley
Release date	27 March 1941 (1941-03-27)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

City of Missing Girls is a 1941 American film directed by Elmer Clifton.^[1][2]

Plot[]

The police led by Captain McVeigh and the Assistant District Attorney James J. Horton are baffled by the disappearances of several young girls with some being found dead. Intrepid female newspaper reporter Nora Page's investigations reveal a link between the girls and the Crescent School of Fine Arts owned by gangster King Peterson, who is using the school as a front for a recruiting center for his nightclub "entertainers". Things become more complex when Nora's father is connected with Peterson and her boyfriend James Horton is photographed in embarrassing circumstances with a woman found murdered after the photo was taken.

Cast[]

• H. B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh
• Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page
• John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton
• Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph
• Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson
• George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan
• Kathryn Crawford as Helen Whitney
• as Kate Nelson
• Walter Long as Police Officer Larkin
• Gale Storm as Mary Phillips
• Boyd Irwin as Joseph 'Joe' Thompson
• Danny Webb as William 'Bill' Short, Photographer
• Herb Vigran as Danny Mason

Critical reception[]

TV Guide called it "An awkward murder mystery."^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• City of Missing Girls at IMDb
• City of Missing Girls is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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