Rent Too Young to Love / Frail Women (1960)
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2h 40min
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Double bill of British classics.
Too Young to Love (1960)
Based on the American play, Pickup Girl by Elsa Shelley and Filmed at Beaconsfield Studios, this highly moral and controversial film tells the story of a young girls slide into the world of prostitution, disease and abortion and her fight to redeem her life. Originally X rated it caused an outcry for support of teenage children in Britain at the time.
Frail Women (1932)Maurice Elvey directed this 1931 Twickenham production produced by the prolific Julius Hagen, stars: Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Edmund Gwenn. Lillian (Mary Newcomb) has an illegitimate war baby. The father, a soldier unaware of the situation goes off to war. Years later the soldier now a Colonel learns of his child and offers to marry Lillian to give his daughter a name and avoid the social stigma's of that time. - Actors:
- Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller, Austin Willis, Vivian Matalon, Jess Conrad, Sheila Gallagher, Alan Gifford, Miki Iveria, Cec Linder, Bessie Love, Cal McCord, Robert Henderson, Thomas Mitchell, Michael Bell, Robert Desmond, Bee Duffell, Nicholas Evans, Charles Farrell, Ilona Ference, Tom Gerrard
- Directors:
- Muriel Box, Maurice Elvey
- Producers:
- Herbert Smith, Sydney Box, Julius Hagen
- Writers:
- Muriel Box, Sydney Box, Elsa Shelley, Michael Barringer
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Introducing a British Film Family
