MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2

Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue in the 1930's, classing up horror movies DRACULA'S DAUGHTER and THE WALKING DEAD... the latter featuring suave-villain actor Ricardo Cortez, who, in BUNCO SQUAD, cons the older yet still quite lovely Marguerite to get to her heiress boss: the primary long con despite SQUAD starting out with one of those documentary style narrations...

Starring handsome Robert Sterling partnered with square-jawed Douglas Fowley and in love with lovely actress Joan Dixon, a Gene Tierney lookalike that winds up undercover to bust what's an intriguing, uncomplicated seance scam that includes backstabbing deaths centered around new age spiritualism, before it was the media's personally-protected religion. 

Joan Dixon, Douglas Fowley and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD

Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD

Ricardo Cortez, Bernadene Hayes and John Kellogg in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill and Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill and Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill and Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Joan Dixon in BUNCO SQUAD

Joan Dixon in BUNCO SQUAD

Elizabeth Risdon, Joan Dixon and Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill and Ricardo Cortez in BUNCO SQUAD

Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD

Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD

Elisabeth Risdon and John Kellogg in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill with Bernadene Hayes and John Kellogg in BUNCO SQUAD

Marguerite Churchill and Elisabeth Risdon in BUNCO SQUAD