Melvin Shyer's reductionist 1939 exploitation feature about teenage Marian (Mary Ainslee), who finds herself threatened by a prostitution ring, arrives at the damning conclusion that it's all the fault of mom (silent film star Betty Compson). If the wealthy society dame hadn't hired a male prostitute (oily Willy Castello) for her own pleasure, only to find him drooling over her daughter instead, virtue would have prevailed and audiences would have been spared this hectoring, paternalistic rant of a roadshow release.
Shyer, whose career began in the silent era, worked primarily as assistant to directors such as Richard Thorpe and Edward Dmytryk, and served in that function on classic horror fave Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943). His final credit was as assistant director for 1962's Creation Of The Humanoids, purportedly Andy Warhol's favorite film.
Shyer, whose career began in the silent era, worked primarily as assistant to directors such as Richard Thorpe and Edward Dmytryk, and served in that function on classic horror fave Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943). His final credit was as assistant director for 1962's Creation Of The Humanoids, purportedly Andy Warhol's favorite film.
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