Child Bride

Child Bride (1938)

Jennie ist ein zwölfjähriges Mädchen, das mit ihren Eltern in einem extrem ländlichen Bergland lebt. Ihre Schullehrerin, Miss Carol, obwohl selbst ein Bergmädchen, war zur Lehrerausbildung gegangen und in der Hoffnung zurückgekehrt, die Tradition der Kinderehe, die fester Bestandteil der Kultur ist, zu beenden. Jennies Vater Ira ist ein guter Mann, der versucht, Miss Carol vor den Männern zu beschützen, die ihr Gewalt anbedrohen, wenn sie ihren Kreuzzug gegen die Kinderehe nicht abbricht. Einer dieser Männer, Jake Bolby, hat die kleine Jennie im Auge und plant, sie zu seiner Braut zu machen...

Erscheinungsdatum
1938-03-02
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (38)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 2 Min.
Genres
Drama, Liebesfilm
Regie
Harry Revier

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Child Bride, also known as Child Brides, Child Bride of the Ozarks and Dust to Dust, is a 1938 American drama film written and directed by Harry Revier, and produced by Raymond L. Friedgen. It was promoted as educational in an attempt to draw attention to the lack of laws banning child marriage in many states.

Production

Child Bride was the first film produced by noted exploitation film producer and promoter Kroger Babb, who marketed it as an educational film and who would reissue it under various titles, including Child Brides, Child Bride of the Ozarks and Dust to Dust.

The film had been submitted to the Production Code Administration for a certificate of approval, but was denied because of its subject matter, which was said to be "a sexually abhorrent abnormality which violates all moral principles", and because of the onscreen child nudity. The censors also objected to the murderer never being punished for his deeds.

The production of the film in 1938 followed shortly after mass media coverage of the 1937 marriage of 9-year-old Eunice Winstead to Charlie Johns, causing the film to be compared to it.

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