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- It's a film of great faces, but for all of the seedy atmosphere and leering grandeur, it's really about the limited options of women in a male-dominated world. Rated: 4/5 • May 9, 2019 A shout-out is deserved as well for two of the finest African-American performers working in Hollywood in the 1930s, Nina Mae McKinney and Clarence Muse.
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Safe in Hell is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama directed by William A. Wellman and starring Dorothy Mackaill and Donald Cook, with featured performances by Morgan Wallace, Ralf Harolde, Nina Mae McKinney, Clarence Muse, and Noble Johnson.
SAFE IN HELL (First National Pictures, 1931), directed by William A. Wellman, stars Dorothy MacKaill in possibly her best movie role. Considering the fact that her screen career dates back to the silent era (1920s), it's actually hard to detect what other movies in which she appeared are as good as SAFE IN HELL.
Nov 14, 2017 · Fleeing the police for a crime she commits in desperation, she’s taken by her sailor boyfriend to the hell of the title, a Caribbean island whose no-extradition policy makes it a magnet for the dregs of the world.
Jun 17, 2023 · William Wellman’s weirdly morbid morbid thriller from the pre-Code years has been newly remastered, after the discovery of a quality print. The legendary Dorothy Mackaill’s luck goes from bad to worse as she finds herself trapped in a Caribbean hell-hole, to be victimized by lecherous outcasts and corrupt officials.
Summary After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.
Nov 16, 2012 · But it is Dorothy Mackaill’s best movie, Safe in Hell, that most naturally calls another big star of the period to mind: Barbara Stanwyck. Mackaill’s Gilda is tough. Circumstance robs her of potential happiness and she finds herself exiled to the worst imaginable place.