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Directed by | Albert H. Kelley |
Screenplay by | Jack Jungmeyer Albert H. Kelley Edwin Roth |
Produced by | George McCall James M. Doane |
Starring | Johnny Duncan Marcia Mae Jones Eddie Gribbon |
Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
Edited by | John Faure |
Music by | Bernard Katz |
Production company | Wilshire Pictures |
Distributed by | Modern Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Street Corner is a 1948 American exploitation film directed by Albert H. Kelley, produced by Wilshire Pictures, and featuring Johnny Duncan, Eddie Gribbon, and Marcia Mae Jones. [1] It was released on DVD in 2003 by Something Weird Video.
Narrated to the viewing audience in flash back format by a sympathetic family doctor (after beginning with a trial in which an unnamed older woman is sentenced to 10 years in prison for an undisclosed crime), the movie revolves around Lois Marsh, a high school girl who discovers that she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Bob Mason. Lois worries about her options. She and Bob decide to marry in secret, but Bob dies In a car accident on his way to meet Lois. Lois then confides in a waitress who directs her to someone who performs abortions. After the abortion, Lois passes out on the street. She is immediately brought to her family doctor where she tells him what has happened. The doctor admits Lois to the hospital and informs her parents about the abortion. The movie concludes with the doctor giving a sex education lecture to teens and their parents using graphic, visual depictions of venereal disease, female anatomy, pregnancy, and childbirth.
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