The read
Audiences rate it 30 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 2m.
Synopsis
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
Ratings
IMDb4.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes17%
Audiences rate it 30 points higher than critics do.
20 audience votes
Key crew
- Dorothy DavenportDirector
- Melville ShyerDirector
- Dorothy DavenportWriter
- Willis KentWriter
Cast
- Helen FosterAnn Dixon
- Nell O'DayEve Monroe
- Glen BolesTommy
- Robert QuirkEd
- Paul PageRalph Bennett
- Richard HemingwayBrad
- Virginia True BoardmanMartha Dixon
- Richard TuckerMr. Dixon
- Donald KerrDrunk shooting dice
- Eleanor ThatcherDancer
- Neal PrattEvans
- Jimmy TolsonClub Singer Jimmy
Stills
Themes
remakeunderage drinkingpre-codeunderage sexwild partywoman directorunplanned pregnancystrip pokerillegal abortiondeflorationmoral corruptionexploitation film