Abandoned
Movie
Type
1949
Year
1h 18m
Runtime
★ 6.2
Rating
Drama / Romance / Crime
Genre
Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.
Cast

Dennis O'Keefe
Mark Sitko

Gale Storm
Paula Considine

Marjorie Rambeau
Mrs. Leona Donner

Raymond Burr
Kerric

Will Kuluva
Little Guy Decola

Jeff Chandler
Chief MacRae
Meg Randall
Dottie Jensen

Jeanette Nolan
Major Ross

David Clarke
Harry, Mrs. Donner's Chauffeur

Mike Mazurki
Hoppe

Sid Tomack
Humes, missing persons office clerk
Ruth Sanderson
Mrs. Spence