The Devil's Sleep

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The Devil's Sleep
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Directed byW. Merle Connell
Written byRichard S. McMahan
Produced by George Weiss
Production
company
Screen Classics
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
70 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Devil's Sleep is a 1949 exploitation film directed by W. Merle Connell and produced by George Weiss. Connell had previously directed a number of American burlesque films. [1] The film looks at juvenile delinquency, phony women's health gyms, and the pushing of narcotics to teenagers. Using many of the same cast and crew as Test Tube Babies , the film is the first of Timothy Farrell's "Umberto Scalli" trilogy.

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Plot

Umberto Scalli has returned from a prison sentence with two lucrative enterprises: a women's health spa that gives the women Dinitrophenol tablets that reduce weight but may have dangerous side effects; and selling Benzedrine to teenagers through a young man who provides them through swinging parties held at a house Scalli owns. Some of the teenagers attempt to pay for their drugs by committing burglaries. Judge Rosalind Ballentine and Police Detective Sergeant Dave Kerrigan unite to end the menace, but Scalli attempts to blackmail the judge with photographs of her daughter Margie willfully drugged and nude at one of the parties.

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