Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

robert-temple-1 This is a very low budget B picture which is saved from being a waste of time by surprisingly good acting. The film is 98% shot in a studio with the most basic possible sets. The film did provide an opportunity for Gale Storm, aged 19, to appear in her third feature film (she started in movies only the year before). She would later become famous in America and become something of a 'national treasure' in the hit television series MY LITTLE MARGIE (1952-1955), in which she played Little Margie. Since the series ran to 126 episodes, there was no one in America who had not seen her and taken her to their hearts by the time that was over. And from 1956 to 1960 she continued to ride on her wave of national popularity with her own series, THE GALE STORM SHOW. This film featured H. B. Warner, a well-known and solid performer of the old school, as a police captain, and an extremely lively and cheerful Astrid Allwyn, who does a very good job at holding the film together and keeping us interested. She plays very well against John Archer, as there is chemistry in their jokey romance. The film is a mystery, in that several young girls from the city have disappeared, and no one can trace them. Two have been found dead, so that there is obviously something sinister going on. Whodunnit and who is doing it? That's what everyone wants to know. But it is not easy to find out. A rainy afternoon film.

Red-Barracuda City of Missing Girls is an interesting post-Hays Code mystery film. It verges on exploitation subject matter but seeing as it was made after the stringent Code censorship rules you could be forgiven for not even noticing. The story is basically about an unscrupulous club-owner who sends show-girls off to lives of prostitution. Pretty racy stuff for the times but the vice material is only ever really alluded to. This was seriously taboo material in the 40's hence this enforced approach.The film itself is an efficient enough, if unremarkable, example of genre film-making of the time. The focus is strictly on the mystery side of the story, with thrills and suspense almost completely absent. Still it's worth checking out as something of a curiosity piece, seeing as it was quite unusual in the 40's for such a standard mystery film to incorporate any exploitation material at all. So at the very least this movie has this one unusual angle to differentiate it from most of its peers.

kidboots For lovers of B movies this film is a cornucopia of stars - silent stars - Walter Long, stars on the way down - Astrid Allwyn, H. B. Warner, stars on the way up - Gale Storm and stars that never were - Kathryn Crawford. In 1930 Crawford was getting the star treatment. She was thought a good bet by Paramount - enough to snare Buddy Rogers away from the more beautiful Carole Lombard and Virginia Bruce in "Safety in Numbers" (1930) - even though she was the drabbest of all the chorus girls in the movie. The next year she had the lead in "Flying High" which boasted Busby Berkeley choreography. Then musicals went out and so did Miss Crawford. She hung around until 1933 and then no more - until this movie - 8 years later, when she was billed as Katherine Crawford and played, what else, a jaded chorus girl.A philosophizing D.A. (H. B. Warner) is on a crusade to find out the fate of a group of missing girls, all of whom have attended a local dramatic school. A sleazy night club manager King Peterson (Philip Van Zandt), uses it as a feeder for his nightclub, which could also be a front for a prostitution racket - or that's what the D.A. wants to find out. Nora (Astrid Allwyn) is a newspaper reporter, whose father is a theatrical booking agent. She goes to him for information about the girls and while he pleads ignorance, he knows far more than he lets on. One of the missing girls turns up, showering gifts on her mother but being vague about her new job. It seems that one of the nightclub girls has been recruiting young girls for the drama school and Pauline , along with her pretty friend Mary (Gale Storm) are signed up. Pauline, however knows too much and is talking so she ends up dead in an alley. Nora's father runs the drama school but when he entered into association with Peterson, he didn't realise what was involved - and now he wants out.This is an OK movie. H.B. Warner had an astounding career - there didn't seem to be a role he wouldn't tackle. In this one he was so debonair - I kept expecting him to be unmasked as the villain. Astrid Allwyn, must have discovered the secret of eternal youth as she always looked young and beautiful.Recommended.

dbborroughs Girls are going missing and a DA and veteran cop team up to expose the rackets that are set up to lure young girls in to a life of shame.This film is more a curiosity than anything. My guess it was cheaply made and ran on the exploitation circuit for years. The music isn't even stock music, but is supplied by an organ that pumps out bridges between scenes.How best to describe this movie? Its the type of movie that insomniacs prayed not to find on the Late Late Show because it was just interesting enough to keep them awake while it un-spooled. It wasn't good enough to actually wake them up, but it wasn't bad enough to put them out, rather its a film of the twilight between asleep and awake. I'm of a similar mind, its not bad, but its not good. Its the sort of thing that just is. If you should run across it on TV you might want to try it, but I can't suggest searching it out.5 out of 10