Cafe Hostess (1939)
- Directed by
- Sidney Salkow
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman works as a hostess in a nightclub and gets caught up in criminal activities. She must navigate danger and moral choices.
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What happens
Cafe Hostess (also known as Street of Missing Women) is a 1940 American crime film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Preston Foster and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was written by Harold Shumate, based on a story by Tay Garnett and Howard Higgin. Prior to filming the studio had been warned by the MPAA that the film did not comply with its code, but it is unclear whether changes were made to the script. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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