Boy Slaves
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Director P.J. Wolfson Duration | 6.2/10 IMDb Genres Drama, Black-and-white Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Annie), Roger Daniel (Jesse), James McCallion (Tim), Alan Baxter (Graff), Johnny Fitzgerald (Knuckles), (Sheriff)Release date February 2, 1939 Writer Albert Bein (screen play), B. Harrison Orkow (screen play), Albert Bein (from an original story by) Similar movies Anne Shirley appears in Boy Slaves and Mother Careys Chickens Tagline SOLD - Human Beings, In This Modern Age, Actually Sold Into Slavery! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boy Slaves is a 1939 drama film starring Anne Shirley. The film was directed by P.J. Wolfson and based upon an Albert Bein story. Boy Slaves is an exposé of child labor.
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Plot
Runaway boy Jesse Thompson, hoping to earn enough money to support his mother, follows a gang of other boys. After an infraction gets them all in trouble, they are forced to work in a fenced and guarded turpentine camp, climbing and tapping trees. They are free to leave only if they can first pay off bills they ran up at the company store (peonage). Trapped in a state of de facto slavery, they decide to strike for better food after one boy gets dizzy from hunger and falls from a tree, resulting in the amputation of his arm. When their protest fails, the boys decide to write a letter about the conditions of their detention to the U.S. President's wife, but it is intercepted. The boys believe one of their number is a "snitch", but later discover differently.
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