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Plot

Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on Glenn Ford's road to stardom. The story concerns a crooked adoption racket, operating out of a supposedly charitable maternity home. The establishment's staff uses methods of persuasion both subtle and overt to convince the unfortunate mothers-to-be to give up custody of their unborn children, which are then sold to adoptive parents who've had no luck within legal channels. Those expectant mothers who protest against these shady goings-on have a habit of disappearing without a trace. The racket is exposed by crusading reporter Steve Burton (Glenn Ford), with the aid of inquisitive maternity-home inmate Ruth Williams (Rochelle Hudson).
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
65min.
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
Charles Barton
Starring:
Rochelle Hudson , Glenn Ford , Miles Mander , Joseph Stefani , Georgia Caine
Keywords:
adoption,black-market,brutality,capture,corruption,evidence,expose [revelation],investigation,journalism,kidnapping,mother,offbeat,perversion,physical-abuse,police,reporter,rights,tension,toddlers,victim,witness,woman