Babies for Sale (1940)
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- 65 mins
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Babies for Sale
Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on Glenn Ford's road to stardom. The story concerns a crooked adoption racket, operating out of a supposedly charitable maternity home. The establishment's staff uses methods of persuasion both subtle and overt to convince the unfortunate mothers-to-be to give up custody of their unborn children, which are then sold to adoptive parents who've had no luck within legal channels. Those expectant mothers who protest against these shady goings-on have a habit of disappearing without a trace. The racket is exposed by crusading reporter Steve Burton (Glenn Ford), with the aid of inquisitive maternity-home inmate Ruth Williams (Rochelle Hudson). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Babies for Sale:
Rochelle Hudson also in Curly Top , The Savage Girl , Strait-Jacket , Rebel Without a Cause , Bush Pilot
Glenn Ford also in Plunder of the Sun , Cimarron , The Violent Men , Santee , Raw Nerve , Pocketful of Miracles
Joseph Stefani also in The Sky Bandits
Isabel Jewell also in Swing It, Sailor! , Marked Woman , Counsellor-At-Law , Born to Kill , Lost Horizon
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