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The Devil's Sleep is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 18 may 1949 with Lita Grey
The Devil's Sleep (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe 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. 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.
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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.Actors
Lita Grey
(Judge Rosalind Ballentine (as Lita Grey Chaplin))
John Mitchum
(Doctor)
Timothy Farrell
(Umberto Scalli)
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