Bunco Squad

Bunco SquadMaster con artist Anthony Wells and his team of sham spiritualists and sance operators have found the perfect mark: a wealthy widow (Elisabeth Risdon) convinced that Wells' phony Rama Society can put the grieving woman in touch with her deceased son. The con is on, and the LAPD's Bunco squad is out to stop it in this brisk B documentary style crime tale that features intriguing glimpses of mid century Los Angeles locales. Robert Sterling (TV 's Topper

who directed Flynn in The Prince and the Pauper and The Adventures of Robin Hood

perhaps better known to theater aficionados

a flighty actress (Eleanor Parker) invites him to spend his leave on the couch in her apartment

something happens

slap him 100 times - the Big Top crowd roars

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

including this 1922 adaptation featuring some of the era's most luminous players

Haines shines in this crime caper as a go-getter who gets the crooks

Soon after L

eager to claim Peggy for himself

After Seever's fianc�e leaves him

undercover agent John Riggs (DeFore) follows the money trail to a Los Angeles hotel