A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
Child Bride or Child Bride of the Ozarks 1938 HD by Harry Revier | Child Marriage Story | Shirley Mills
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Child Bride, also known as Child Brides, Child Bride of the Ozarks, and Dust to Dust (USA reissue titles), is a 1938. American film directed by Harry Revier and produced by Raymond L. Friedgen. The film was promoted as educational and as an attempt to draw attention to the lack of laws banning child marriage in many states.
The film is set in a remote town in the Ozarks. It was very controversial at the time both for its theme and because of a toplessness and nude swimming scene by then 12-year-old Shirley Mills. The film bypassed the ban of onscreen nudity under the Motion Picture Production Code by being produced and distributed independently of the studio system, and by claiming to be educational. Although the film was Film censorship in the United States in many areas, the movie’s controversial nature gave it a certain infamy and it played on the so-called exploitation film circuit for many years.
The film was one of director Revier’s last. He had previously made a series of low-budget, independent movies including The Lost City (1935 serial) series and Lash of the Penitentes.
Plot
Miss Carol (Diana Durrell) is an idealistic teacher in a remote one-room schoolhouse. A native of the Ozarks herself, she is determined to stop the practice of child marriage, in which older men marry teen or preteen girls. Her campaign raises the ire of some local men, led by Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond), who one night drag her into the woods, tie her to a tree with the intention of tarring and feathering her. Before they can do this, however, Angelo the dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) and Mr. Colton (George Humphreys) arrive with a shotgun to save the day.
Following this, Jake Bolby comes across young Jennie Colton (Shirley Mills) swimming naked. When her father dies, Bolby decides to take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail her mother into letting him marry the girl, threatening that otherwise he will see her hanging for murder. After he “courts” Jennie by giving her a doll, the two are married. It later turns out that this ceremony was illegal, as child marriage had been banned several days prior, but this point quickly becomes moot. Before Bolby can consummate the union, he is gunned down by Angelo. Jennie leaves his house with Freddie Nulty (Bob Bollinger).
Cast
- Shirley Mills as Jennie Colton
- Bob Bollinger as Freddie Nulty
- Angelo Rossitto as Angelo the dwarf
- Warner Richmond as Jake Bolby
- Diana Durrell as Miss Carol
- Dorothy Carrol as Flora Colton
- George Humphreys as Ira Colton
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