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What Price Innocence? (1933)

What Price Innocence? poster
Directed by
Willard Mack
Genre
drama film, exploitation film, sexploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl faces the consequences of a secret romance in 1930s America. The film warns against premarital sex and shows the social fallout of an unexpected pregnancy.

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What happens

What Price Innocence? is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film written and directed by, and co-starring, Willard Mack. Produced on a low budget for Columbia Pictures, it has been classed as an exploitation film and "sex hygiene film" because it touches on teenage pregnancy and morality in a didactic manner. The film features a teenaged Betty Grable in an early film role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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