The Devil's Sleep

The Devil's Sleep
Directed by W. Merle Connell
Produced by George Weiss
Written by Richard S. McMahan
Production
company
Screen Classics
Release date
 1948
Running time
 70 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Devil's Sleep is a 1949 exploitation film directed by W. Merle Connell and produced by George Weiss. Connell had previously directed a number of American burlesque films.[1] The film looks at juvenile delinquency, phony women's health gyms and pushing narcotics to teenagers. Using many of the same cast and crew as Test Tube Babies, the film is the first of Timothy Farrell's "Umberto Scali" trilogy.

Plot

Umberto Scali has returned from a prison sentence with two lucrative enterprises; a women's health spa that gives the women Dinitrophenol tablets that reduce weight but may have dangerous side effects, and selling Benzedrine to teenagers through a young man who provides them through swinging parties held at a house owned by Scali. Some of the teenagers attempt to pay for their drugs by committing burglaries. Judge Rosalind Ballentine and police Detective Sergeant Dave Kerrigan unite to end the menace, but Scali attempts to blackmail the judge though having photographs of Ballentine's daughter Margie willfully drugged and naked at one of the parties.

Cast

  • Lita Grey ... Judge Rosalind Ballentine
  • William Thomason ... Detective Sergeant Dave Kerrigan
  • Will Charles ... Inspector Darnell
  • Timothy Farrell ... Umberto Scalli
  • Fred Smith ... Tony Donardi
  • Muriel Gardner ... Ruby McKenzie
  • Jim Tyde ... Bob Winter
  • Stan Freed ... Hal Holmes
  • Tracy Lynne ... Margie Ballantine
  • John Mitchum ... Intern
  • George Eiferman as himself

See also

References

  1. ↑ pp.267-268 Shteir, Rachel Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show Oxford University Press, USA 1 Nov 2004-
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