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Safe in Hell is one of the many risque, pre-Code features that can be read in two contrasting ways.. On one hand, Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) is a woman seizing control of her body and her sexuality, determined to live and, if necessary, die as she wills it, regardless of the restrictions placed upon her by her situation, or the predators by whom she is surrounded.
Safe in Hell is a little reminiscent of "The Unholy Garden," with its tropic sanctuary where rogues of various nationalities live out their days in happy oblivion, safe from the long arm of extradition. The theme is a good deal sadder, a sort of meldodramatization of all those sad songs about the women who will die rapturously for their men.
Overview. To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell. William A. Wellman. Director.
May 26, 2018 · Safe in Hell is a dark but wonderful pre-Code movie about a fiercely willed prostitute on the run from the law in New Orleans and the Caribbean. Although raped and exploited in the United States, and ultimately executed in the context of the seedy underbelly of the South Seas crime world, she lives out her days devoted to her lover and herself with a rebellious passion.
SAFE IN HELL. Directed by. William A. Wellman. United States, 1931. Drama, Crime. 73. Synopsis. Shady lady in the tropics Dorothy Mackaill strikes matches on her ...
Jun 17, 2023 · Safe in Hell. by Glenn Erickson Jun 17, 2023. William Wellman’s weirdly morbid thriller from the pre-Code years has been newly remastered, after the discovery of a quality print. The legendary Dorothy Mackaill’s luck goes from bad to worse as she finds herself trapped in a Caribbean hell-hole, to be victimized by lecherous outcasts and ...
Safe in Hell is a 1931 American, pre-Code thriller film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Dorothy Mackaill and Donald Cook, with featured performances, by Morgan Wallace, Ralf Harolde, Noble Johnson and Nina Mae McKinney. The screenplay by Joseph Jackson and Maude Fulton was based on a play by Houston Branch.
