Safe in Hell (1931) on Netflix
Passed19311h 13mCrimeDramaRomance
Accused of murder in New Orleans, Gilda Carlson is smuggled by Carl Bergen to Tortuga, a Caribbean island that refuses extradition. She is left in a hotel full of international criminals.
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Plot summary
Gilda Carlson loses her job as a secretary and works as a prostitute in New Orleans, and she is charged with murdering Piet van Saal, the man she blames for that fall. Her old boyfriend, the sailor Carl Bergen, smuggles her out of the city to Tortuga, an island in the Caribbean that will not extradite her, and there the two marry without a clergyman. Before Carl sails away again, Gilda promises to be faithful to him. Left behind, she finds the island's hotel full of international criminals and discovers she is the only white woman among them. Mr. Bruno, who calls himself the jailer and executioner of the island, presses her for attention while she waits for Carl.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Safe in Hell (1931)
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- The characters played by Nina Mae McKinney and Clarence Muse were almost the only positive and reputable figures in Safe in Hell, and the two actors spoke standard American English even though their lines had been written in "Negro dialect".
- Casting for the film initially included David Manners, Boris Karloff, John Harrington, Montague Love and Richard Bennett in male roles, and First National Pictures considered Lilian Bond and Barbara Stanwyck for the part of Gilda.
