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"YOU READ ABOUT THESE CASES EVERY DAY!"

1947

1h 12m

5.5(18 votes)

Crime

Drama

Overview

Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Nancy Coleman

Nancy Coleman

Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason

Michael O'Shea

Michael O'Shea

Steve Fuller

Sheldon Leonard

Sheldon Leonard

Fred Stalk

Peter Whitney

Peter Whitney

Joker

Emory Parnell

Emory Parnell

True Dawson

Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

Ralph Borden

Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher

Pop, apartment concierge

Cay Forester

Sally Donahue (as Cay Forester)

John Hamilton

John Hamilton

Dr. Chalmers

Richard Irving

Richard Irving

Protest Rally Orator

Creative team

Directed by: Jack Bernhard
Written by: Lewis Lantz
Stanley Rubin
Produced by: Jack Bernhard
Bernard Brandt

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