The House of Bondage
Summary
A ribbon-bright academy, all starch and psalm, cages our restless skylark; she aches for velvet nights beyond the iron gate. A silk-tongued Lothario, moonlighting as salvation, trades pressed violets for her trust, then barters her body on a back-alley ledger. From dormitory prayers to bordello gaslight, innocence is auctioned in satin increments—each kiss a promissory note, each caress a shackle. The brothel’s crimson parlour becomes her new classroom: chalkboards replaced by mirrors, hymns by husky laughter. When the last mask falls, she confronts the pimp-cum-rapturous-executioner, reclaiming the shattered mirror of her gaze—even if freedom is merely the open air above a different gutter.
Synopsis
A young girl rebelling against her strict school is tricked by a romantic suitor into prostitution.
Director
C. Shropshire, Mrs. Cortes, Miss Earl, Julia Walcott, Katherine Vaughn, Susanne Willis, Anna Jordan, Miss Bancroft, De Forrest Dawley, Fred Nicholls, Robert Lawrence, Brian Darley, Mr. McPhee, George Moss, Gerald King, Amelia Badarracco, Marion Coleman, Miss Crane, Herbert Barrington, Armand Cortes, Gertie Millar, Miss Nelson, Miss Gormely, Vivian De Wolfe, Clyde Morris, Della Buckridge, George Ricketts, Lottie Pickford
Pierce Kingsley, J.G. Hawks, Reginald Wright Kauffman
