What is the duration of Passport to Shame?

The duration of Passport to Shame is 86 mins.

What is the original language of Passport to Shame?

The original language of Passport to Shame is English.

Who directed Passport to Shame?

Passport to Shame was directed by Alvin Rakoff.

Which studio made Passport to Shame?

Passport to Shame was produced by United Co-Productions.

Passport to Shame 1958

Q: Does Passport to Shame have end credit scenes?

Passport to Shame does not have end credit scenes.

Drama

Crime

Runtime

86 mins

Language

English

A PICTURE BEST UNDERSTOOD BY ADULTS! British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

United Co-Productions

Studio

Alvin Rakoff

Director

Does Passport to Shame have end credit scenes?

No!

Passport to Shame does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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Nick Biaggi, [Herbert Lom], runs a finance company that provides unsecured loans to naïve young women—a façade for manipulating them into prostitution. He recruits many of these women from abroad and, to secure their status, arranges “husbands” in marriages of convenience. His newest recruit is Marie Louise ‘Malou’ Beaucaire [Odile Versois], and her sham husband will be Johnny McVey [Eddie Constantine], a Canadian cab driver who owes money to Nick.

When Nick meets Malou he assumes she is already a prostitute and is amused when she tells him she is not. Malou believes that she has been hired as a companion to an upper-class British woman, and Nick has established her in a nice house, where she meets Vicki [Diana Dors].

Nick blackmails Malou into engaging in street sex work, and threatens to disfigure her if she doesn’t comply. Johnny locates and rescues her. Subsequently, Nick and his gang recapture Malou and assault Johnny, while fellow cab driver Mike [Robert Brown] grows close to Vicki, who after her sister’s suicide rebels against Nick and tells Johnny where Malou is held. Johnny rescues Malou once more. Cabdrivers converge on Nick’s bordello and fight a pitched battle against Nick’s gang while Vicki, Johnny and Malou escape. Nick falls to his death.

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Regent III

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1948

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1958

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