FBI Girl *** (1951, Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,164

Raymond Burr as Blake: ‘It would be a novelty in this great country of ours, wouldn’t it? A man running for the United States Senate with a murder charge hanging over his head.’

Producer-director William A Berke’s well-plotted, quite engrossing 1951 black and white American film noir crime film FBI Girl stars Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake and Raymond Burr, is made by Jedgar Productions and distributed by Lippert Pictures.

The screenplay by Dwight Babcock and Richard Landau, based on a story by Rupert Hughes, is about a female FBI employee, clerk for the FBI Shirley Wayne (Audrey Totter), embroiled in a US government plot involving corruption and murder.

Cesar Romero and George Brent star as the investigating FBI agents Stedman and Donley. Raymond Greenleaf also stars as politically ambitious Governor Owen Grisby, who is actually a wanted murderer named John Williams, Raymond Burr plays his ruthless right-hand henchman Blake, and Tom Drake plays Carl Chercourt an influential lobbyist on their payroll. There’s a bunch of interesting characters, and a bunch of interesting actors to play them.

It is made at Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California.

It runs 74 minutes.

It was released on November 4, 1951 (United States).

It was advertised as: ‘Woman… on a Man-hunt’

The cast are Cesar Romero as Agent Glen Stedman, George Brent as Agent Jeff Donley, Audrey Totter as Shirley Wayne, Tom Drake as Carl Chercourt, Raymond Burr as Blake, Raymond Greenleaf as Governor Owen Grisby, Margia Dean as Natalie Craig, Don Garner as Paul Craig, Alexander Pope as George Denning, Richard Monahan as Donald, Tommy Noonan as Television Act, Peter Marshall as Television Act, Jay Maybe as Doris, Joi Lansing as Susan Matthews, Walter Coy as Priest, Byron Foulger as Morgue Attendant, Joel Marston as bellhop Alex Nicholson, Marie Blake as Landlady, Fenton Earnshaw as Rand, and O Z Whitehead as undertaker Chauncey.

It was released in the UK in a double bill with Wings of Danger (1952).

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