Black Market Babies

Starring: Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Teala Loring, et al.

"A smart guy could clean up in a racket like this." So says Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond), a smooth-talking hood who sells unwanted babies to childless rich couples. Teaming up with a broken-down sawbones (Ralph Morgan) and a silver-tongued shyster (George Meeker), Condon operates a private maternity home where he rakes in the dough until a pre-paid baby is stillborn. Intent on keeping the cash, he hands over his sister-in-law's newborn instead, a baby-switching scheme that soon gives way to frame-ups, fallouts and murder. The type of film the majors would avoid lest it harm their mainstream reputation, Black Market Babies is a prime example of the controversial programmers only a B movie studio like Monogram Pictures could make. Based on a December 1944 Woman's Home Companion article that was reprinted in Reader's Digest, this searing drama is both cutting-edge and exploitative, a lurid expose that's lost none of its power to shock.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883316813034
• Release Date: March 2015
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Allied Vaughn
• Director: William Beaudine
• Starring: Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Teala Loring, Marjorie Hoshelle, George Meeker, Maris Wrixon, Addison Richards, Anthony Warde, Selmer Jackson, Marie Harmon
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"