The headline covers just about all that's good with this supposed expose' into the tawdry call girl-model industry. The movie isn't campy enough to be funny, in fact it's cleaned up look and LA feel (it's supposed to be New York City) work against it.
"Vice Raid" is a very good cop film with mostly little-known actors--apart from Mamie Van Doren. It's the story about an unnamed city's vice squad--one in which much of the force is on the take to the mob.
This is the kind of movie that is just an excuse to show how good Mamie Van Doren looks because the story is goofy.A framed and ultimately fired cop runs a rival prostitution ring with the blessing of the police to take down the prostitution ring that framed him.
This is notable for the no singing, no dancing, no wiggling outing for the usually Vivacious Mamie Van Doren. Here she is more Thespian than usual and gets to show some Acting chops.
Vice Raid (1960) ** (out of 4)Crime boss Vince Malone (Brad Dexter) deals in various illegal activities but prostitution is his number one money maker. The only problem is vice squad member Whitey Brandon (Richard Coogan) who will stop at nothing to bring him down.
***SPOILERS*** 1950's sex kitten Mamie Van Doren does some serious acting here as call girl & model Carol Hudson in "Vice Raid" as a big city and high class call girl who's used by the local police to set up her boss mob kingpin Vince Malone, Brad Dexter, who's model agency she's working for. It's in fact fired police detective Sgt.
Vice Raid (1960) A sensational topic, some steamy jazz, and the gritty big city. Could be good, I think.
This is interesting from a historical viewpoint. Obviously this movie was made to appeal as much as possible to prurient interests, while disingenuously throwing a skimpy veil of morality over it, so that people (meaning men, like me) way back when had some sort of flimsy excuse for our viewing (leering?
A vice detective goes up against a call girl (Mamie VanDoren) and loses in court. But once unemployed, the cop starts handling investigations his own way.
