Violence

Violence

★ 5.5IMDb Score
Released:1947-05-09
Duration:72 min
Director:Jack Bernhard
Actors:Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea, Sheldon Leonard, Peter Whitney, Emory Parnell
Production:Bernhard-Brandt Productions, Monogram Pictures

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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