**SPOILERS** possible. This one swings between courageous sweetness and bloody brutality, The acting is good. The plot is mildly reminiscent of "The Phenix City Story" which, incidentally, is much darker. All tied up together is family, politics, illegal gambling, blackmail, crooked cops, murder, and Stu Bailey. It's a good one, and Kathie Browne does a pretty good job, along with veteran actors who do a fine job of being either rotten or angelic. Frances Helm has an important role, here; she's one of those actresses who are sexy and sweet at the same time. It's a good one, I recommend it.
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The Senator being blackmailed
bkoganbing23 February 2019
Stu Bailey travels to Nevada where State Senator Lee Bowman where Bailey&Spencer has been hired by Bowman to investigate a charge of blackmail.
Bowman heads a state version of a Kefauver type crime committee and the
mob thinks it has something on him.
Bowman back in the day was married to Virginia Gregg and she claims that he never divorced her and abandoned daughter Kathie Browne. Bowman is now married to socialite Frances Helm and Gregg runs a small time gambling establishment.
One investigator has been killed and Efrem Zimbalist gets worked over by some corrupt police. Acting honors go to Jacques Aubuchon as the small town chief of police and Gregg who may or may not have been wronged by Bowman, but life hasn't been to her.
After a dozen years and still a Kefauver type crime hearing plot was still being used and effectively.
Bowman back in the day was married to Virginia Gregg and she claims that he never divorced her and abandoned daughter Kathie Browne. Bowman is now married to socialite Frances Helm and Gregg runs a small time gambling establishment.
One investigator has been killed and Efrem Zimbalist gets worked over by some corrupt police. Acting honors go to Jacques Aubuchon as the small town chief of police and Gregg who may or may not have been wronged by Bowman, but life hasn't been to her.
After a dozen years and still a Kefauver type crime hearing plot was still being used and effectively.
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