Vice Squad (1953 film)

Vice Squad is a 1953 police procedural film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Edward G. Robinson as a police captain with the Los Angeles Police Department and Paulette Goddard as one of his informants.

After a bank robbery pulled by Alan Barkis and his gang, another policeman is gunned down and a bank teller is taken hostage. Escort agency madam Mona Ross is willing to help Barnaby with the case for a fee.Barnaby places one of Barkis partners, Marty Kusalich, under arrest until Marty implicates the real killer. Pete Monte steals a boat in an attempt to get Barkis to freedom, but Barnaby and his lieutenant, Lacey, arrive in the nick of time. ........

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