Slaves in Bondage

1937 film by Elmer Clifton

Slaves in Bondage

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Directed by| Elmer Clifton
Written by| Robert Dillon
Produced by| J.D. Kendis
Starring| See below
Cinematography| Edward Linden
Edited by| Earl Turner
Distributed by| Jay-Dee-Kay Productions

Release date

* 25 July 1937 (1937-07-25)

Running time

| 70 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Slaves in Bondage is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Lona Andre, Donald Reed, and Wheeler Oakman.

## Plot

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Naive country girls are lured to the big city with the promise of employment only to be abducted and forced to work as prostitutes in decadent, high-class brothels.

## Cast

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* Lona Andre as Dona Lee
* Donald Reed as Phillip Miller
* Wheeler Oakman as Jim Murray
* Florence Dudley as Belle Harris
* John Merton as Nick Costello
* Richard Cramer as Dutch Hendricks
* William Royle as Newspaper City Editor
* Edward Peil Sr. as Detective Captain
* Louise Small as Mary Lou Smith
* Matty Roubert as Good-Looking Freddie
* Suzanna Kim as Fan Dancer

Ed Carey, Martha Chapin, Donald Kerr, Eddie Laughton, Sam Lufkin, Murdock MacQuarrie, Carl Mathews, Fred Parker, Henry Roquemore, Lottie Smith, and Arthur Thalasso appears uncredited.

## Production background

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Slaves in Bondage is a low-budget, independently produced exploitation film presented as a cautionary tale about the evils of white slavery prostitution rings operating in larger cities in the United States. To avoid local censorship issues, the film's dialogue does not use the words brothel or prostitution.

The film is typical of the many exploitation film features of its time that claimed to warn the public about various kinds of shocking sin and depravity corrupting today's society. In reality, these films were cynical, profit-motivated vehicles that wallowed in lurid, taboo subjects such as drug abuse, promiscuous sex, venereal disease, polygamy, child marriages, etc.

## External links

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* Slaves in Bondage at IMDb
* Slaves in Bondage is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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Films directed by Elmer Clifton

* Her Official Fathers (1917)
* The Flame of Youth (1917)
* High Speed (1917)
* The Midnight Man (1917)
* A Stormy Knight (1917)
* Flirting with Death (1917)
* The Man Trap (1917)
* The High Sign (1917)
* The Flash of Fate (1918)
* Brace Up (1918)
* The Two-Soul Woman (1918)
* The Guilt of Silence (1918)
* Smashing Through (1918)
* The Eagle (1918)
* Winner Takes All (1918)
* Battling Jane (1918)
* Kiss or Kill (1918)
* The Hope Chest (1918)
* Boots (1919)
* Peppy Polly (1919)
* I'll Get Him Yet (1919)
* Nugget Nell (1919)
* Nobody Home (1919)
* Turning the Tables (1919)
* Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920)
* Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
* Six Cylinder Love (1923)
* The Warrens of Virginia (1924)
* Daughters of the Night (1924)
* Wives at Auction (1926)
* The Virgin Wife (1926)
* The Truth About Men (1926)
* The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
* Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1928)
* Beautiful But Dumb (1928)
* Virgin Lips (1928)
* Tropical Nights (1928)
* The Bride of the Colorado (1928)
* The Devil's Apple Tree (1929)
* Maid to Order (1931)
* Pals of the Range (1935)
* Cyclone of the Saddle (1935)
* Fighting Caballero (1935)
* Captured in Chinatown (1935)
* Rough Riding Ranger (1935)
* Rip Roaring Riley (1935)
* Skull and Crown (1935)
* Custer's Last Stand (1936, serial)
* Wolves of the Sea (1936)
* Wildcat Trooper (1936)
* Gambling with Souls (1936)
* Ten Laps to Go (1936)
* Death in the Air (1937)
* Mile-a-Minute-Love (1937)
* Slaves in Bondage (1937)
* Assassin of Youth (1937)
* The Secret of Treasure Island (1938, serial)
* Paroled from the Big House (1938)
* The Stranger from Arizona (1938)
* Law of the Texan (1938)
* California Frontier (1938)
* Crashing Thru (1939)
* Isle of Destiny (1940)
* City of Missing Girls (1941)
* I'll Sell My Life (1941)
* Hard Guy (1941)
* Swamp Woman (1941)
* Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
* The Old Chisholm Trail (1942)
* The Sundown Kid (1942)
* The Blocked Trail (1943)
* Days of Old Cheyenne (1943)
* Frontier Law (1943)
* The Return of the Rangers (1943)
* Boss of Rawhide (1943)
* Captain America (1944, serial)
* Guns of the Law (1944)
* The Pinto Bandit (1944)
* Spook Town (1944)
* Seven Doors to Death (1944)
* Gangsters of the Frontier (1944)
* Youth Aflame (1944)
* Dead or Alive (1944)
* The Whispering Skull (1944)
* Marked for Murder (1945)
* Swing, Cowboy, Swing (1946)
* The Judge (1949)
* Not Wanted (1949)
* Red Rock Outlaw (1949)
* The Silver Bandit (1950)

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