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The Respectful Prostitute (1952)

  
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Co-scripted by Jean-Paul Sartre from his stage play, this controversial French drama is set in the Jim Crow-era American South. Barbara Laage stars as the title anti-heroine, a singer/call girl who sees a U.S. senator's son kill a black man on a train and is pressured to lie and say the murder was an act of self-defense. With Walter Bryant, Ivan Desny. Uncut version; 94 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; bonus shorts "The Black Legion" (1936), "New Girl In The Office" (1958). In French with English subtitles.
 
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Category:
Foreign
Director:
Charles Brabant, Marcello Pagliero
Rated:
NR
Color:
Black & White
Format: 
Fullscreen
Closed Captioned:
 No
Cast:  Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny, Walter Bryant, Yolande Laffon, Nicolas Vogel, Jacques Hilling, Jean Danet
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