Paid to Dance

It seems those dancers-for-hire clubs have some shady dealings in the background with young girls being locked into contracts that allow them to be shipped to any club the owner wants - still, one can't operate without protection from the law and when a new protector comes into the picture, suddenly there's trouble in local boss Miranda's Paradise Club. These girls are also dying like flies and disappearing into thin air to the consternation of the citizenry so the governor decides to get tough has many repercussions for the girls. Rita Hayworth is a new dancer who gets mixed up in the conflict between the club owners, the agents and the law; however, she only has a few scenes here and there, and looks fairly ordinary here as she had yet to have her transformation into all-out film star. As the flick proceeds the pace picks up speed until by the end developments come thick and fast, enough to make your head spin. It's dog-eat-dog among the bosses as the steel ring of the police tightens. Clearly a low budget affair, this film in packs tons of plot as is surprisingly brutal near the end. Short and sweet!

Taxi dancers are disappearing from the dance halls of the state, and some are turning up dead. While citizen groups demand the halls be closed, Don Terry and Julie Bishop go to work undercover to solve the crimes and close down the racket. Miss Bishop gets a job as a dance-hall girl, while Terry opens a competing hall and gets an in as a fixer.

This seems to be based on Lucky Luciano's brothels; it wouldn't be the first or last time that the Production Code turned prostitutes in taxi dancers. It's high speed, timing in at an hour, but lacks much in the way of interesting details thereby, despite. A cast that includes Rita Hayworth, Paul Fix, and Thurston Hall.