Storyline

Not knowing what else to do, Georgia Thursday contacts her estranged ex-husband, alcoholic Max Thursday, after their toddler son, Jeff, goes missing, Max a former NYPD detective now the house detective of the rundown Brooklyn establishment, the Riverview Hotel, run by his streetwise friend, Smitty, who gave him a job and a room when nobody arguably would. Georgia did not go to the police as her now missing brother Fred Mace's disreputable associate Dr. Elder threatened her against doing so in he probably having something to do with the missing pair. As such, Max goes on a quest for Jeff and by association Fred with the only lead they have, namely Dr. Elder, with help from Smitty who knows, through experience, the grittier side of most urban streets in the United States than most. In the process, Max comes to believe that their disappearance most-likely centers on a criminal with the code name St. Paul, with Jeff solely being an innocent bystander in whatever criminal activity is going on. Beyond following the leads, the question becomes whether Max can hold it all together, namely by staying away from the bottle, long enough to save his family.—Huggo

Plot Keywords

gang member, gunfire, anxiety, despair, desperation, deception, damsel in distress, double feature film, low budget film, poverty row film, b movie, actress billed above the title, actor billed above the title, held at gunpoint, reprisal, alcoholic, gang leader, vindication, treachery, brutality

Short Review

A young woman stops by at a sleazy hotel to ask for a certain somebody and by the time she finds him drunk lying in bed she notifies him that their son had been kidnapped. He used to be dedicated and work for law enforcement and is now an alcoholic and his name is Max Thursday (Zachary Scott) and the young woman who was searching for him was ex Georgia Thursday (Faye Emerson) trying to motivate him to get their son back. Things come for the worst when the last person he was seeing regarding his son was murdered.

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