Slaves in Bondage

Rating:
Summary: Alpha puts out a decent DVD here
Review: This film is a exploitation film from 1938, and was usually shown at theaters that typically showed other lurid product under an "adults only" banner. (These films would sound and purport to be more lurid than what actually showed on screen but that was part of the producer's game here. These types of films dealt in subjects that were forbidden by the mainstream studios to produce due to the Production Code. The film's producer, JD Kendis, was known as one of the infamous "Forty Thieves".) Plot involves a beauty parlor owner who lured women into her employ(by advertising in out of town newspapers looking for makeup workers) and wound up using these women as prostitutes in a brothel. Wheeler Oakman, best known for appearing in the Flash Gordon serials of the 1930's, plays her right-hand man. John Merton, another heavy from Republic serials, plays another gangster. Lurid for its era, although quite tame compared with today's stuff that would pass on network TV.

Alpha, a company who usually specializes in subpar DVD releases of Public Domain films/TV shows, actually puts out a good DVD here. The picture is quite decent, there doesn't appear to be any dialogue jumps or missing footage, and the dialogue can be heard cleanly. This is much better than other Alpha product that I have bought in the past.