Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Mary Ryan, Detective (1949)

A modest but enjoyable little crime B-movie.

A female gang is stealing jewellery, possibly by making use of small children. Detective Mary Ryan (Marsha Hunt) is sent to prison (undercover of course) by her boss (John Litel) to try and infiltrate the gang. This she succeeds in doing but the gang leader (June Vincent) is suspicious which proves very dangerous to Mary...

A thoughtful and intelligent film with some good performances. The gang are not the sort of identikit thugs which you usually get in films of this type. Maybe not a thrill-a-minute but a good plot.