Vice Raid

The headline covers just about all that's good with this supposed expose' into the tawdry call girl-model industry. The movie isn't campy enough to be funny, in fact it's cleaned up look and LA feel (it's supposed to be New York City) work against it.

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The film runs a scant 71 minutes and cuts corners from the onset. Two vice cops a known low level mobster attempting to transport a would be model-call girl into town at a bus station. Since she's over 21 and stacked (Juli Reding as Gertie) it's assumed she's coming to town to become a working girl. What happens to her 'transporter' doesn't fit the accusation and it's only there to expose one of the vice cops as being a bad cop. The good cop takes Gertie to the ticket window to give her a bus ride out of town.

Good cop Sgt. Whitey Brandon (an OK Richard Coogan) is out to bust mob boss' Vince Malone's (Brad Dexter) model-call girl racket. The alluring Carol Hudson (Mamie Van Doren) is recruited from Detroit to entrap the vice cop. He poses as a photog; she hired as a 'date' and busted...but not before she struts her stuff in a white bathing suit.

Carol turns the tables on Brandon and charges him with entrapment and he's bounced from the force. Brandon then unbelievably goes into business himself to break Malone. One of Malone's thugs Phil Evans (Barry Atwater) lusts for Carol and when she rebuffs him repeatedly, goes after her younger, naive sister Louise (Carol Nugent).

After Phil attacks Louise, Carol decides to help Brandon bring down the racket because Malone (now her boyfriend) takes the mob's business first approach to little sister's attack.

I didn't know bad guys and cops still used tommy guns in 1960. Movie lacks any real seediness, looks like a bunch of air brushed gals right out of the men's mags of the day, doing a little fun modeling on the side for some randy clients. No hint of abuse, no booze, or drugs. Only hint of realism is innocent Louise being attacked by the creepy Phil.

Of course, the bad mob boss loses, Carol is exonerated since she helped and good cop Brandon she's both Carol and little sister Louise happily off as we reach the end. Only Mamie, clad mostly in form fitting white makes this one watchable.