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Bunco Squad

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Original title

Bunco Squad

Year

1950

Running time

67 min.

Country

United States

Director

Herbert I. Leeds

Screenwriter

Edward G. O'Callaghan. Novel: Reginald Taviner

Cast

Music

Paul Sawtell

Cinematography

Henry Freulich (B&W)

Producer

RKO Radio Pictures

Genre

Drama. Mystery | Crime. 1940s. B Movie

Synopsis

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.

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Bunco Squad

1950

Herbert I. Leeds

5.7

(56)