Review of Abandoned

Abandoned (1949)
6/10
A Many Years Ago
5 July 2020
Gale Storm's sister was due to have a baby out of wedlock. Now she has disappeared, and there's no sign of the baby. She enlists reporter Dennis O'Keefe, and together they investigate what happened, and the baby-farming racket at the center of the mystery.

Here's a Universal noir directed by B specialist Joseph Newman. It's a bit hysterical in tone, but well put together, with William Daniels as the director of photography, and a sterling cast, including Jeff Chandler as O'Keefe's editor, Raymond Burr and Mike Mazurki as heavies, and Marjorie Rambeau as the sinister head of the ring. It's a bit dated, but very watchable.
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