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Moving from Category:Melodrama films to Category:1950s melodrama films using Cat-a-lot

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{{Short description|1952 crime film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Girls Marked Danger
| image = La tratta delle bianche.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Luigi Comencini]]
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dino De Laurentiis]]
* [[Carlo Ponti]]
}}
| writer =
| narrator =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Eleonora Rossi Drago]]
* [[Marc Lawrence]]
* [[Ettore Manni]]
* [[Tamara Lees]]
* [[Barbara Florian]]
* [[Silvana Pampanini]]
* [[Vittorio Gassman]]
}}
| music = [[Armando Trovaioli]]
| cinematography =
| editing = [[Nino Baragli]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1952}}
| runtime = {{Plainlist|
* 97 minutes
* 75 minutes <small>(U.S.)</small>
}}
| country = {{Plainlist|
* Italy
* United States
}}
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}

'''''La Tratta delle bianche''''' ("[[White slavery|The Trade in White Women]]") is a 1952 Italian-language [[crime film|crime]]-[[melodrama film]] directed by [[Luigi Comencini]]. It stars [[Eleonora Rossi Drago]], [[Marc Lawrence]], [[Ettore Manni]], [[Tamara Lees]], [[Barbara Florian]], [[Silvana Pampanini]], and [[Vittorio Gassman]].

In 1954, the film was released in the United States as '''''Girls Marked Danger'''''. For its American release, the film was dubbed in English.

==Plot==
A man invites Italian women to become [[cabaret dancer]]s in South America, but he is actually forcing them into [[sexual slavery]].

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Eleonora Rossi Drago]] as Aida
* [[Marc Lawrence]] as Manfredi
* [[Ettore Manni]] as Carlo
* [[Silvana Pampanini]] as Lucia
* [[Vittorio Gassman]] as Michele
* [[Tamara Lees]] as Clara
* [[Antonio Nicotra]] as Bernardino
* [[Barbara Florian]] as Fanny
* [[Ignazio Balsamo]] as Stefano
* [[Franco Bologna]] as Marco
* [[Gianni Bonos]] as Tonino
* [[Sophia Loren]] as Elvira
* [[Enrico Maria Salerno]] as Giorgio
* [[Duilio D'Amore]] as Luciano
* [[Maria Zanoli]] as Giulia<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/girls-marked-danger-v147545/cast-crew |title=Girls Marked Danger (1954) |website=AllMovie |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>
}}

==Production==
[[Sophia Loren]] had a small role in the film as a fainting dancer in a marathon. Despite her minor role, Loren appeared in advertisements for the film's release in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Loren|first=Sophia|title=Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fk8RCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=7 July 2015|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-9743-4|page=50}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hoz|first1=Cindy De La|last2=Movies|first2=Turner Classic|title=Sophia Loren: Movie Star Italian Style|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJUiDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT144|date=26 September 2017|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-6132-5|page=144}}</ref> The only well-known American member of the cast was [[Marc Lawrence]], who had moved to Rome from Hollywood after being called before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]], but many of the Italian cast were also already known to Americans. The film was dubbed into English for its U.S. release.<ref name="Miami">{{cite news |last=Bourke |first=George |date=June 21, 1955 |title='Girls Marked Danger' Rates Warning Sign |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72681547/the-miami-herald/ |work=The Miami Herald |location=Miami, Florida |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>

==Reception==
George Burke, of the ''[[Miami Herald]]'', said, "It is possible that ''Girls Marked Danger'' had some merit before it was dubbed with English dialogue that is not always in the mood or movement of the action".<ref name="Miami"/>

In 1959, [[Pope John XXIII]] had the Catholic Church's [[National Legion of Decency]] classify films for the Association of Catholic Motion Picture Theater Operators of Italy's anniversary. Catholics were not supposed to watch those classified as morally objectionable. The article for ''Girls Marked Danger'' stated: "Objection: The theme of this picture employs throughout material morally unsuitable for entertainment motion picture theaters. Moreover, in treatment, it contains offensive and suggestive sequences."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturescl00nati/page/86/mode/2up |title=Motion Pictures Classified by National Legion of Decency |date=1959 |website=Archive.org |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref> The National Legion of Decency is now known as the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eidr.org/the-engineers-room-happy-lateran-treaty-day/ |title=The Engineer's Room: Happy Lateran Treaty Day |date=February 10, 2020 |website=The Entertainment Identifier Registry |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>

Advertising material for the film's theatrical release is held at the [[Harry Ransom Center]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] within its Hoblitzelle Interstate Theatre Circuit Advertising Collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=01350 |title=Hoblitzelle Interstate Theatre Circuit |website=Harry Ransom Center |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id =0046455 }}
{{Luigi Comencini}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Luigi Comencini]]
[[Category:Films scored by Armando Trovajoli]]
[[Category:Italian crime drama films]]
[[Category:1952 crime drama films]]
[[Category:Italian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1950s melodrama films]]
[[Category:Films about slavery]]
[[Category:Obscenity controversies in film]]
[[Category:1950s Italian films]]

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