They Were So Young

The so-called future models are trained in Paris, which is not a coincidence: white slave trade was more often the subject of a movie in France ,in the thirties and mainly in the fifties; in 1936, film noir past master Robert Siodmak ,had already broached the topic with "le chemin de Rio"

It could be subtitled "the perils of Pauline" , the heroine ,a naive German girl falls from the frying pan ( the house where the girls are here to satisfy the wealthy men's whims ) into the fire ( Raymond Burr ,a perfect villain ,in his desirable mansion with his favorite -whom he will ditch when he gets tired of her ) .

Her attentive escort (Scott Brady) is almost as naive as her : in the first half of the movie, he's subject to gaffes -entrusting his protégée to the white slave big boss by no means the least- and as a mining engineer ,he's rather gullible .

The story is action-packed, full of sudden new developments ,with exotic settings and thus never boring.