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Girls Marked Danger (1952)

Girls Marked Danger poster
Original title
La tratta delle bianche
Directed by
Luigi Comencini
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 34m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Italian woman gets tricked into traveling abroad for a fake job offer. She ends up trapped in a foreign country's sex trade, and a rescue mission is launched to bring her home.

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What happens

La tratta delle bianche ("The Trade in White Women") is a 1952 Italian-language crime-melodrama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It stars Eleonora Rossi Drago, Marc Lawrence, Ettore Manni, Tamara Lees, Barbara Florian, Silvana Pampanini, and Vittorio Gassman. In 1954, the film was released in the United States as Girls Marked Danger. For its American release, the film was dubbed in English. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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