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Traffic in Crime (1946)
Directed by Lesley Selander
Overview
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, ‘Silk” Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
Length 56 minutes
Actors
Kane Richmond | Anne Nagel | Adele Mara | Wade Crosby | Wilton Graff | Roy Barcroft | Dick Curtis | Arthur Loft | Harry Cheshire | Robert J. Wilke | Earle Hodgins | Horace Murphy | Charles Sullivan | Ernie Adams | Budd Buster | Kenne Duncan | Fred Graham