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Suddenly, their story takes a much darker turn. A cigarette girl at a nighttime beer garden to help make ends meet, the wife is sexually harassed by a violent customer, and her husband, waiting to escort her home, defends her in an escalating confrontation.
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Sex in Chains: Directed by William Dieterle. With William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson, Paul Henckels. A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
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- William Dieterle
- 1932
Sex in Chains (German: Geschlecht in Fesseln – Die Sexualnot der Strafgefangenen) is a 1928 silent film directed by William Dieterle. Plot. The film opens with Franz Sommer (Dieterle) and his newlywed wife, Helene (Mary Johnson). They are going through hard times, and Sommer is without steady employment, partly due to his honest-to-a-fault ...
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- Leo Meyer
Aug 17, 2020 · Category: Sex in Chains 1928. Chapter 2 – Queers and Dykes in the Dark: Classic, Noir & Horror Cinema’s Coded Gay Characters: THE LAND OF MORAL AMBIGUITY: HOLLYWOOD & THE HAYS CODE. “Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex Relationships are the accepted or common thing…”
Mary Johnson. Paul Henckels. Addeddate. 2024-01-01 22:19:00. Genre. Drama. Identifier. sex-in-chains_1928. Location.
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Sex in Chains (1928) directed by William Dieterle • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1928 ‘Geschlecht in Fesseln’ Directed by William Dieterle. A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate.
Synopsis by Perry Seibert. One of the films Wilhelm Dieterle made in his native Germany before escaping the Nazi and becoming Hollywood director William Dieterle. Dieterle plays Sommer, a young husband who is sentenced to a jail term after killing a man who was threatening his wife.