WOMANHUNT Original Daybill Movie Poster Steve Peck Lisa Lu

Womanhunt (1962)

Directed by Maury Dexter.

With Steve Peck, Lisa Lu, Berry Kroeger, Bob Okazaki

Hal Weston arrives in Los Angeles in search of his ex-wife Nora Petrie, whose current husband, Petrie, once a partner with Weston in the import business, recently died. Nora divorced Hal shortly after Petrie, who was using the firm as a front for smuggling dope, escaped from the New York police. Weston contacts Osgood, a former employee of Petrie's, and asks him to aid in the search for Nora. In the Oriental section of L.A., he learns from Li Sheng that Nora was a dope addict.