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"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 exposé that’s lost none of its power to shock.
Original Release
12/15/1945
US Release
12/15/1945
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Ralph Morgan | Dr. Henry Jordon |
Kane Richmond | Eddie Condon |
Jayne Hazard | Doris Condon |
Teala Loring | Evelyn Barrett |
Marjorie Hoshelle | Donna Corbett |
George Meeker | Anthony Marsden |
Maris Wrixon | Helen Roberts |
Nana Bryant | Mrs. Grace Andrews |
Addison Richards | District Attorney Hamilton |
Anthony Warde | Paul Carroll |
Directors
Writers
George Maurice, Virginia Reid, George Wallace Sayre
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ralph Morgan | Dr. Henry Jordon |
Kane Richmond | Eddie Condon |
Jayne Hazard | Doris Condon |
Teala Loring | Evelyn Barrett |
Marjorie Hoshelle | Donna Corbett |
George Meeker | Anthony Marsden |
Maris Wrixon | Helen Roberts |
Nana Bryant | Mrs. Grace Andrews |
Addison Richards | District Attorney Hamilton |
Anthony Warde | Paul Carroll |
Selmer Jackson | Mr. Henry Andrews |
Dewey Robinson | Barney Kramer |
Alan Foster | Jake |
Parker Gee | Undetermined Secondary Role |
Terry Frost | Defense Attorney |
John Gallaudet | Undetermined Secondary Role |
Jean Andren | Nurse |
Andy Andrews | Sergeant |
Paul Bradley | John Becker |
Ken Broeker | Ryan |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jeffrey Bernerd | Producer |