City of Missing Girls (1941)

In the shadowy underbelly of a city plagued by the chilling mystery of vanishing young girls, the brutal murder of dancer Thalia Arnold brings the crisis to a fever pitch. Enigmatic nightclub operator, King Peterson, owner of the dubious Crescent School of Fine Arts, becomes the prime interest of relentless Police-Detective Captain McVeigh. Among the shadowy figures entwined in this complex web is Joseph Thompson, Peterson's enigmatic silent partner and theatrical agent, whose fiery daughter, Nora, wields her pen as a reporter to wage a crusade against the district attorney's office's failure to solve the disappearances. The plot thickens when Pauline Randolph, a prospective stage starlet, vanishes after leaving her grandmother's home in the company of a mysterious blonde woman. This leads Nora on a trail of suspense that connects Pauline to her friend Mary Phillips, both of whom had ties to the Crescent talent-school. As tension mounts, Thompson and Peterson clash over the potential fallout from their suspect school, igniting a powder keg of drama and suspicion. Under the spotlight of investigation, Mary attempts to pick out the enigmatic blonde from a lineup of Peterson's nightclub showgirls, a task that proves as elusive as the truth itself. The plot takes a darker turn when the blonde woman, Kate Neslon, is found lifeless in her apartment, her promise of valuable information about the missing girls dying with her. To penetrate the veil of mystery, Nora, concealing her relation to Thompson, audaciously decides to audition for the drama school, suspected to be a façade for a sinister prostitution racket. Simultaneously, James Horton, the young assistant district attorney, finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail and deceit, threatening to derail his investigation. As the stakes rise, the intrepid female reporter wades deeper into danger, determined to expose the racket, vindicate the district attorney, and unearth the truth behind the City of Missing Girls.

City of Missing Girls is a crime movie featuring John Archer and directed by Elmer Clifton.

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