Black Market Babies (1945) On DVD
Actor: Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Jayne Hazard, Teala Loring, Marjorie Hoshelle
Director: William Beaudine
Genre: Drama
Year: 1945
Studio: Warner Archive Collection
Length: 71
Released: June 11, 2013
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:English
Subtitles :N/A
DESCRIPTION:
"A smart guy could clean up in a racket like this." So says Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond), a smooth-talking hood who sells unwanted babies to childless rich couples. Teaming up with a broken-down sawbones (Ralph Morgan) and a silver-tongued shyster (George Meeker), Condon operates a private maternity home where he rakes in the dough until a pre-paid baby is stillborn. Intent on keeping the cash, he hands over his sister-in-law's newborn instead, a baby-switching scheme that soon gives way to frame-ups, fallouts and murder. The type of film the majors would avoid lest it harm their mainstream reputation, Black Market Babies is a prime example of the controversial programmers only a B movie studio like Monogram Pictures could make. Based on a December 1944 Woman's Home Companion article that was reprinted in Reader's Digest, this searing drama is both cutting-edge and exploitative, a lurid exposé that's lost none of its power to shock.
Actor: Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Jayne Hazard, Teala Loring, Marjorie Hoshelle
Director: William Beaudine
Genre: Drama
Year: 1945
Studio: Warner Archive Collection
Length: 71
Released: June 11, 2013
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:English
Subtitles :N/A
DESCRIPTION:
"A smart guy could clean up in a racket like this." So says Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond), a smooth-talking hood who sells unwanted babies to childless rich couples. Teaming up with a broken-down sawbones (Ralph Morgan) and a silver-tongued shyster (George Meeker), Condon operates a private maternity home where he rakes in the dough until a pre-paid baby is stillborn. Intent on keeping the cash, he hands over his sister-in-law's newborn instead, a baby-switching scheme that soon gives way to frame-ups, fallouts and murder. The type of film the majors would avoid lest it harm their mainstream reputation, Black Market Babies is a prime example of the controversial programmers only a B movie studio like Monogram Pictures could make. Based on a December 1944 Woman's Home Companion article that was reprinted in Reader's Digest, this searing drama is both cutting-edge and exploitative, a lurid exposé that's lost none of its power to shock.
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