Blonde in Bondage

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Blonde in Bondage
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Directed by Robert Brandt
Written byPeter Bourne (Åke Björnefeldt)
Börje Nyberg (story)
Produced byTom Younger
Starring Mark Miller
Anita Thallaug
Lars Ekborg
Cinematography Bengt Lindström
Edited by Lennart Wallén
Music by Charles Redland
Production
company
Nyvefilm
Distributed byFreja Film
Distributors Corporation of America (US)
Release date
  • 8 November 1957 (1957-11-08)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySweden
Language Swedish

Blonde in Bondage (Swedish: Blondin i fara) is a 1957 Swedish drama crime film directed by Robert Brandt, who also wrote lyrics to the film's two songs. Distributors Corporation of America released the film in the US as a double feature with The Flesh Is Weak (1957). It was shot at the Metronome Studios in Stockholm.

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Plot

New York City reporter Larry Brand is sent to Stockholm to do a story on Swedish morals. A traffic accident leads him into rescuing a strip tease artiste from drug addiction and pits him against a ruthless criminal gang.

Cast

Soundtrack

"The Blues" , "Shock Around the Clock" (music by Ulf Carlén, lyrics by Robert Brandt).


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