Starring Dennis O'Keefe, Gale Storm, Marjorie Rambeau, Raymond Burr,

Will Kuluva and Jeff Chandler

Directed by Joseph M. Newman



Print: black/white

Runtime: 78 min.

Genre: film-noir

Picture Quality: B



Viewers who know Gale Storm only through her chaotic comic

performances on TV's My Little Margie and Oh Susanna will be surprised

by her subdued dramatic performance in Abandoned. Storm plays Paula

Consodine, who comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister.

Newspaperman Mark Sitko (Dennis O'Keefe), 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

(Will Kuluva). Paula bravely offers to act as bait to draw the criminals out,

a formidable task given the presence of such secondary villains as

Raymond Burr and Mike Mazurki.