This is an extremely strange film.Made in the UK but set in Brooklyn.There are two notable Americans in the cast,Thomas Mitchell as the judge and Bessie Love as the court clerk.For some reason the underage girl is on trial without any legal representation.A 47 year old man who had sex with her is let off without charge.What is worse it turns out that the girl has been sleeping around,so not only does she get sentences to three years juvenile detention but she has also contracted syphilis.It was clearly hard hitting and controversial for the time.Why did Sydney and Muriel Box set this in the US?Maybe the censor wouldn't have passed it if set in the UK.
Review of Too Young to Love
