Vice Raid (1959)

A police sergeant (Richard Coogan) has personal reasons for working the vice squad and taking down a major prostitution ring posing as a modeling agency run by the syndicate. The mobster (Brad Dexter) running the agencies has a plan of his own. He sends one of his models (Mamie Van Doren) to frame the cop! Directed by Edward L. Cahn (ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU), this "B" exploitation crime drama is shot in a semi-documentary style with a somber voiced John Dehner doing the narration to let us know this is serious stuff! It's quite entertaining actually though not in the way the film makers probably intended. With one exception, the acting is pretty bad. The bad guys all snarl and the good guys are stiff. The one exception is Mamie Van Doren doing her usual tough sexpot act, she's perfected it so she can (and probably does) do it in her sleep. I watched most of it with a smile on my face. If you've a taste for these exploitation B crime movies, this one will satisfy your craving. The crisp B&W cinematography is by the great Stanley Cortez (MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER). With Barry Atwater, Frank Gerstle and Carol Nugent.