Indian Representation in Disney's Spin
A movie that brings Indian culture with classic Bollywood themes and electronic dance music.
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, 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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama, Crime
Written By:Robert Dillon
In Theaters:7/24/1937
Box Office:
Runtime:70 minutes
Studio:Jay-Dee-Kay Productions
Cast
Elmer Clifton
Director
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
Edward Peil Sr.
Detective Captain
Louise Small
Mary Lou Smith
Matty Roubert
Good-Looking Freddie
Suzanna Kim
Suzanna Kim (Exotic dancer)
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