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Slaves in Bondage
“Society Beauties by Day! Party Girls by Night!”
3.0 / 10• 1937• 1h 10m•NR• English
DramaCrime
Storyline
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, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
Cast & Crew
Lona Andre
Dona Lee
Lead
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
Edward Peil Sr.
Detective Captain
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Elmer Clifton's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Slaves in Bondage is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
