Review of Vice Raid

Vice Raid (1959)
6/10
What do we have here a new trick your breaking in
23 June 2013
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** 1950's sex kitten Mamie Van Doren does some serious acting here as call girl & model Carol Hudson in "Vice Raid" as a big city and high class call girl who's used by the local police to set up her boss mob kingpin Vince Malone, Brad Dexter, who's model agency she's working for. It's in fact fired police detective Sgt. Whitey Brandon played TV's Captain Video the now 99 year old, as of April 4, 2013, Richard Coogan whom Carol together with crooked cop Sgt. Ben Dunton, Joseph Sullivan, railroaded him out of his job. Now that were through with all the introductions of the major characters in the movie we can get down to business in how the now ex-cop Brandon turned the tables on Malone and the crime syndicate that he worked for.

Going into business for himself, in the model or call girl racket, Brandon plans to put Malone out of business as well as is fellow mobsters in the syndicate. Brandon gets a big brake when Carol's kid sister Louise, Carol Nugent the then Mrs. Nick Adams, is brutally attacked and raped by one of Malone's henchmen Phil Evens, Barry Atwater. With both her and Even's boss Malone doing nothing to make Evens pay for what he did to Louise Carol then jumps ship, the crime syndicate, and joins forces with the enemy, Whitey Brandon and the NYPD, to set up not only Malone & Evens but the entire East Coast crime syndicate!

***SPOILERS*** All the action is as usual in movies like this saved for last with a number of wild shootouts and gangland hits as Carol puts her life and reputation, as a gun moll, on the line by secretly having taped a major syndicate meeting with all the mob bigwigs, from Detroit Kansas City Chicago as well as New York, present. With both Carol and Brandon exposed as working undercover for the police all hell breaks loose with Malone seeing that his days as a big-shot in the syndicate are about to come to an end makes a break for it! Only for him to get machine gunned, in the back no less, by the cops who were just about to raid his high rise office.

P.S The movie "Vice Raid" was the high water mark in Mamie Van Doren's acting career who soon started slipping into obscurity and ending up making director Edward Wood Jr like films like the laughable "Navy vrs the Night Monsters". And her failed and highly publicized seven month engagement to baseball's Baltimoe Oriels pitcher the almost always, even when pitching a no-hitter, drunk and womanizing Bo Bolinsky didn't help it either.
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