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Susan Slade (1961)

Susan Slade poster
Directed by
Delmer Daves
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy teenage girl from a good family gets pregnant out of wedlock and tries to keep it a secret. The story follows her struggles with shame and her desire to keep the child.

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What happens

Susan Slade is a 1961 American Technicolor drama film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire and Lloyd Nolan. Based upon the 1961 novel The Sin of Susan Slade by Doris Hume, concerns a well-to-do teenage girl who secretly has a baby out of wedlock. With cinematography by Lucien Ballard, the film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was the third collaboration between Donahue and Daves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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