Forbidden Daughters

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Forbidden Daughters
Directed by Albert Arthur Allen
Starring
  • Clarice Conwell
  • Gladys DeLores
  • Kathryn Kay
  • Ralph O'Brien
Distributed by Something Weird Video (2002) (USA) (DVD)
Release date
  • 1927 (1927)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English subtitles)

Forbidden Daughters is a 1927 American silent black & white short erotic-drama film directed by prominent nude photographer Albert Arthur Allen. This is the only known movie directed by Allen who, otherwise, was famous by his work as a photographer of nude female models. [1] [2]

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Plot

Alva receives news from her long-lost husband, Russell, and goes to Africa in search of him. There, she finds that her husband is being "held prisoner" by a naked native princess, called Loma. Now, in order to bring Russell back home, Alva must show that she's better than the princess.

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