Little Ladies of the Night – 1977
Director
Marvin J. Chomsky
Writers
Ted Morgan (story)
Hal Sitowitz
Cast
David Soul
Louis Gossett Jr
Linda Purl
Review by Wayne Malin
Graphic (for its time),
This was a pretty disturbing TV movie about a young girl who runs away from home and is forced into a life of prostitution.
I saw this when I was in high school and I was really surprised at how graphic it was. It wouldn’t be made today. Some might view this film as horribly exploitive–in fact it almost never played on TV! When ABC showed the film to its affiliates in 1977, quite a number said they would not show it. They felt it was TOO depressing and graphic. It was heavily edited (you can tell) and then released. My guess is the one released on video is uncut–mostly due to the running time. (It’s 120 minutes on video–on TV it ran two hours with commercials).
I do like it but it seems to go out of its way to shock you and has an ending that I didn’t buy for one second. Still, it’s one of the better 1970s TV teen movies.
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