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Slaves in Bondage (1937) -- Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house...

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Robert Dillon (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 July 1937 (USA) more
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CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH IT! Peeping Through The Keyhole At Intimate Adventures Of Modern Unconventional Youth! more
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Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they... more | add synopsis
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Slightly watchable tale about a traveling prostitution circuit ... more (6 total)

Cast

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Lona Andre ... Dona Lee
Donald Reed ... Phillip Miller
Wheeler Oakman ... Jim Murray
Florence Dudley ... Belle Harris
John Merton ... Nick Costello
Richard Cramer ... Dutch Hendricks
William Royle ... Newspaper City Editor (as William Royale)
Edward Peil Sr. ... Detective Captain
Louise Small ... Mary Lou Smith
Matty Roubert ... Good-Looking Freddie
Suzanna Kim ... Fan Dancer
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Also Known As:
Crusade Against Rackets (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
70 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - 20 January 1939: Investigation of Slaves in Bondage (1937), showing at the Rialoto Theatre here has been ordered by City Manager W. A. Quinn after many complaints were launched against the film advertised as exposing the "private life of a party girl". Investigation is ordered to include the picture itself and the street advertising. more
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Referenced in Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) (V) more

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Slightly watchable tale about a traveling prostitution circuit ..., 13 February 2007
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Author: dwpollar from Bothell, Washington

1st watched 2/13/2007 - 3 out of 10(Dir-Elmer Clifton): Slightly watchable tale about a traveling prostitution circuit that sets up shop wherever it can until the police get a lead. The heads of the group disguise themselves as self-made rich people who somehow just know how to make money. The two heroines in the story, a couple who give links to the local newspaper, are just trying to get on their payroll to make enough money to get married but keep getting caught in the middle of this thing. The hero gets put in jail after the leader of the ring, Mr. Murray(who also happens to be a customer of his girlfriend), plants marked money on him and sends the cops in to arrest him. The rest of the movie, the girlfriend is trying to get him out on bail and is pulled into and introduced to the prostitutes by her boss at the nail saloon(who's doubling as the other leader of the ring). The acting is actually decent in this B movie, but the story is slow to progress and it just doesn't pull you into the plight. The situation just seems a little too canned and Hollywood'ized(as if that we're a word) to have any believability in the characters and their problems. I realize this is a late 30's movie with low production values but the artists don't have enough to make the story worthwhile to watch or credible. Not bad, but definitely could have been better.

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