PICTURE BRIDES (1934) Dorothy MacKaill, Regis Toomey & Dorothy Libaire | Adventure, Crime | B&W

Picture Brides is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure film, directed by Phil Rosen. The film stars Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey and Alan Hale.

SYNOPSIS
Four mail order brides from New Orleans and a young girl conned into a non-existing job in Brazil find adventure, danger and romance in the jungle.

Four "Picture Brides" from New Orleans arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. On the same boat with the "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith and Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, an innocent, frightened girl who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, von Luden, about a job. Knowing von Luden's inhuman reputation, Mame transfers the photo assigning her to Dave Hart to Mary's identification card. Castro, the mail-runner, delivers a letter to von Luden informing him that his partner Hart is wanted in the United States on an embezzlement charge. To protect Mary, Mame presents herself as the job applicant while Mary is introduced to Dave and his fellow supervisors--Peter, Joe, and Bill--as a bride applicant. Dave rescues Mary from a lustful, brutish attack by von Luden. Pretty Mataeo Rogers, half-breed daughter of the camp's drunken doctor, is celebrating her 18th birthday and is lured to von Luden's jungle castle.

CAST & CREW
Dorothy Mackaill as Mame Smith
Regis Toomey as Dave Hart
Alan Hale as Von Luden
Harvey Clark as Doc Rogers
Will Ahern as Brownie Brown
Mary Kornman as Mataeo Rogers
Esther Muir as Flo Lane
Viva Tattersall as Lena
Mae Busch as Gwen

Directed by Phil Rosen
Written by Adele Buffington
Based on Red Kisses by Charles E. Blaney
Produced by M.H. Hoffman
Cinematography Tom Galligan
Edited by Mildred Johnston
Distributed by Allied Pictures
Release date November 1, 1933 (US)
Running time 66 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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