5/10
Baby racket
28 September 2019
This MGM short subject is from their 'Crime Does Not Pay series and it has C.Henry Gordon as the administrator and Granville Bates as the doctor at a home for unwed mothers. The story is told through the eyes of three young pregnant women who came to this home. One thing they were not told is that the contracts they signed gave the home the right to the infant. Gordon and Bates make a pretty penny off these girls.

Note that the option of abortion is not mentioned The Code would not permit it. Bates however is at the bottom rung of his profession and I have no doubt that he'd do it for the right fee.

Marsha Hunt, Mary Bovard, and Jane Drummond are the three women protagonists. Charles Middleton has a good role as Drummond's dad.

Good dramatic, but dated short subject.
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