Is Your Daughter Safe? (1927)
1927 · Ephemeral film · 6 min · dir. Louis King
- Drama
Synopsis
The film was created as a compilation of footage that was, in some cases, nearly fifteen years old, and included stock footage such as medical reels containing footage of venereal diseases and films depicting white slavery. The basic plot was a cautionary tale about a young woman's journey into prostitution and white slavery, but, like the other films of the era, the plot was secondary to the sexual content. Many of the presentations were introduced at the front door, with live nude women in…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Louis King
- Writer
- Max Abramson
- Studio
- Chadwick Pictures Corporation
- Released
- 1927-06-05
- Running time
- 6 minutes
Cast & crew
Louis King Director- Vivian Winston
Jerome Young- Henry Roquemore
- Georgia O'Dell
- Slim Mahoney
- Hortense Petra
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Excerpt from a longer movie- it’s a Cautionary Tale · Kristi722 · 2023-09-23
From Wikipedia- Is Your Daughter Safe (1927) was one of the earliest exploitation films in which nudity appeared. A compilation of medical documentary films and stock footage of nude scenes dating back to the 1900s, it was presented as an educational film about the dangers of venereal disease, white slavery, and prostitution. Exploitation short subjects (three to 15 minutes in length) with comedic plots and frequent nudity were also produced in the silent era. The movie was renamed The Octopus because of social pressures.
★★★ · The first exploitation film? · stingrayfilms · 2013-08-23
This was released in 1927, but much of the nude footage is closer to the 1900s. A compilation of nude scenes and medical films edited together and presented as a cautionary tale regarding VD, white slavery, prostitution, etc. Perhaps the first "white coater" pseudo-educational film of its kind.
★★★ · Trailer? · barticle · 2013-08-23
Judging by the final frame, this was meant to be a trailer for a longer film, "the most sensational film of the year." Today the film work would be considered amateurish, but at the time it was made it may have been as good as it got. It looks like a semi-legal "stag film" of its era. Three stars for curiosity value.
★★★ · TOO FAT · Spuzz · 2016-06-06
These rather portly girls definitely don't fit the strict body shapes of today, and that does make this film stand out. The ladies mostly pose on rocks, hardly erotic and mostly arty. Good on them though for being so brave and free thinking at that time. The end credit I'm presuming is just a dumb edit from some guffawing film editor wanting to have a laugh.
★★★ · An interesting curio · BrianVN · 2021-10-15
Although this film is stated to be from 1927, it appears to be from a much earlier time. This is understandable when you see the last frame,, which says "A Millard Production". this would be S.S. Millard--aka "Steamship"--, a notorious exploitation producer famous (or infamous) for splicing together footage from films from wildly different eras and passing the finished product off as "new", which is what he appears to have done here. the footage of these two naked beauties has a turn-of-the-century look to it, and--although there's no "hardcore" content--is probably what passed for porn back…
