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Plot

Ransom for Alice was the pilot film for the unsold series The Busters. The protagonists are not narcotics agents as might be assumed, but instead a male-female team of government undercover agents (Gil Gerard, Yvette Mimieux) operating in Seattle in the 1890s. Their current assignment is to rescue a teenaged girl (Laurie Prange) who has been abducted by a white slave ring. The male agent has plenty of opportunity to pose as a gunslinger (with a vast array of creative weaponry), while the female agent is consigned to pose as a dance hall girl. Ransom for Alice is an uncertain blend of cop drama, western, and espionage caper; it had all been done earlier, and better, as The Wild Wild West.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Westerns
Run Time:
78min.
Director(s):
David Lowell Rich
Themes:
Going Undercover,Heroic Mission
Tone:
Humorous,Light,Quirky
Keywords:
assignment,dance-hall-girl,girl,government-agent,granddaughter,gunfighter,kidnapping,ransom,rescue,team,teenagers,undercover,white-slavery
Language:
English