Starring Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford, Miles Mander, Joe De Stefani, Isabel Jewell

Directed by Charles Barton



Print: black/white

Runtime: 65 min.

Genre: drama

Print Quality: B



Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale

was another stepping-stone on Glenn Ford's road to stardom. The story concerns a crooked

adoption racket, operating out of a supposedly charitable maternity home. The

establishment's staff uses methods of persuasion both subtle and overt to convince the

unfortunate mothers-to-be to give up custody of their unborn children, which are then sold

to adoptive parents who've had no luck within legal channels. Those expectant mothers

who protest against these shady goings-on have a habit of disappearing without a trace.

The racket is exposed by crusading reporter Steve Burton (Glenn Ford), with the aid of

inquisitive maternity-home inmate Ruth Williams (Rochelle Hudson).