Tomorrow's children / produced by Bryan Foy ; directed by Crane Wilbur ; written by Wallace Thurman. Child bride / produced by Raymond Friedgen ; written and directed by Harry J. Revier.
Publisher:
Kino Classics,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Tomorrow's children: Diane Sinclair, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Sterling Holloway. Child bride: Shirley Mills, Bob Bollinger, Warner Richmond, Diana Durrell. Tomorrow's children originally produced as a motion picture in 1934; Child bride originally produced as a motion picture in 1938. Mono, full screen 1.33:1. Cataloging from container. Features: audio commentary for Tomorrow's children by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Shocking! True! : a history of exploitation films; audio commentary for Child bride by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; trailer gallery.
Summary:
A young woman who wants to marry and have children is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization because her parents are alcoholics and siblings have mental disorders; a schoolteacher in a rural mountain community fights to stop the tradition of child marriage.
Series:
Forbidden fruit : the golden age of the exploitation picture ; volume 5
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