REBELLIOUS DAUGHTERS


US, 1938, 69 minutes, Black and white.
Marjorie Reynolds, Verna Hillie, Dennis Moore, Sheila Bromley, George Douglas.
Directed by Jean Yarbrough.

There are two rebellious daughters in the title, one who is rebelling against her dominating father, the other who has been neglected by her parents. They are friends, go out together to a club with their boyfriends, who get into a fight, find themselves at the police station. The father’s bail out their daughters. However, the two young women decide to go to New York City, team up with a fashion owner that they had met at the club.

The girl who was ignored by her parents gets a job in fashion, but also enters into a plan whereby she compromises visiting men who were photographed with her for blackmail purposes. The other girl realises some of this, is caught, but refuses to compromise.

Ironically, the dominating father and a journalist plan together to unmask the blackmailing ring, freeing the girl.

Standard supporting feature entertainment, one of the many, many films directed by Jean Yarbrough, a touch spicy for the times in its venturing into sexual blackmail.