{"id":15886,"date":"2011-02-10T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2021-03-21T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:54:14","slug":"child-bride-child-bride-of-the-ozarks-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15886","title":{"rendered":"Child Bride \/ Child Bride of the Ozarks (1938)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to fight for these people until the state realizes that child marriage must be stopped!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Poster-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Poster-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA schoolteacher (Diana Durrell) enlists the help of her D.A. boyfriend (Frank Martin) in lobbying to make child marriage illegal in Appalachia &#8212; but will she succeed in time to prevent 11-year-old Jennie (Shirley Mills) from being forced into marriage with lecherous Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond)?\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackmail<\/li>\n<li>Do-Gooders<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>May-December Romance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this &#8220;sleazy backwoods potboiler&#8221; &#8212; a &#8220;low-grade exploitation film&#8221; which did not have to operate within the strictures of the Hays Code, given its status as an &#8220;educational&#8221; movie &#8212; is &#8220;terribly acted, scripted, and directed&#8221;, not to mention &#8220;very campy&#8221;. It&#8217;s perhaps best known for the infamous skinny-dipping scene, when Mills (actually, her body double) takes a lengthy swim in a pond while her friend (Bob Bollinger) stands nearby keeping watch &#8212; and it is indeed shocking to see what the producers were able to get away with in this regard. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-1024x783.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"489\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-1024x783.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-768x587.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2-353x270.png 353w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Swimming2.png 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-1024x787.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"492\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-1024x787.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-768x590.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching-351x270.png 351w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Watching.png 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of later scenes &#8212; such as sleazy Richmond &#8220;wooing&#8221; Mills by bringing her a stuffed doll &#8212; are equally disturbing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Doll.png 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Peary chooses to focus on his review, however, is the &#8220;extremely interesting character&#8221; of the teacher (Durrell), who is a &#8220;liberated woman in the sense that she has chosen her job and living alone over marriage to the man she loves&#8221;, and is &#8220;a crusader, willing to put herself on the line for her cause&#8221; (indeed, one particularly frightening scene shows her being kidnapped and nearly tarred and feathered by a group of angry men). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Kidnapped.png 1219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, after her strong presence during the film&#8217;s exposition &#8212; in which she&#8217;s shown actually traveling &#8220;around talking to the men and women of Thunderhead Mountain&#8221; in an attempt to explain that child marriages have &#8220;ruined the lives of the females&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-1024x786.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-1024x786.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Durrell2.png 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; she is largely absent, as the narrative shifts instead to the central plot involving wily Richmond&#8217;s manipulation into a marriage contract with young Mills. Yet her presence does indeed allow for some &#8220;unexpected feminism&#8221; in an otherwise &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; film &#8212; which, according to Peary, will keep you &#8220;constantly&#8230; amused and amazed&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A notoriously risque look at child marriage<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-1024x796.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-62872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-1024x796.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage-347x270.png 347w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Child-Bride-Marriage.png 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as an infamous exploitation flick. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0029989\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badmovies.org\/othermovies\/childbride\/\">Bad Movies Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to fight for these people until the state realizes that child marriage must be stopped!&#8221; Synopsis: A schoolteacher (Diana Durrell) enlists the help of her D.A. boyfriend (Frank Martin) in lobbying to make child marriage illegal in Appalachia &#8212; but will she succeed in time to prevent 11-year-old Jennie (Shirley Mills) from being forced into marriage with lecherous Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond)? Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Blackmail Do-Gooders Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues May-December Romance Response to Peary\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15886\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70770,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}