Slaves in Bondage(1937)
Society Beauties by Day! Party Girls by Night!
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.
Movie: Slaves in Bondage
Top 10 Billed Cast
Dona Lee
Phillip Miller
Jim Murray
Belle Harris
Nick Costello
Dutch Hendricks
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