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Wife Wanted
UNITED STATES · 1946

Wife Wanted

Phil Karlson
matrimonial fraud blackmail scheme con artists lonely hearts scam investigative journalism
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Synopsis

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyl

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