A mother and father try to find a way to protect their young daughter against the influences of booze, wild parties and (gasp!) dancing during the Jazz Age.A mother and father try to find a way to protect their young daughter against the influences of booze, wild parties and (gasp!) dancing during the Jazz Age.A mother and father try to find a way to protect their young daughter against the influences of booze, wild parties and (gasp!) dancing during the Jazz Age.
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Adeline Hayden Coffin
- Nurse Anna (edited from 'Tell Your Children)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Doris Eaton
- Doris Devereaux (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Margaret Halstan
- Doris' Stepmother (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marion Quigley
- Helen 'Sugar' Devereaux (edited from 'Tell Your Children)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Adele Riggs
- Ellen Devereaux, Helen's Mother (edited from 'Tell Your Children)
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Mary Rorke
- Bill's Mother (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Walter Tennyson
- Bill (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Donald Thompson
- Tom Devereaux (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Warwick Ward
- The Duke (edited from 'Tell Your Children')
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaOnce again, the AFI catalog has make a mess of a simple thing (just like it did on "The Mikado" and "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted") (a typo that mixed the cast of two different films together); in this instance, the first eight credited players in Marriage on Approval (1933), which had a working title of Suspicious Wives, become the cast of Reckless Decision (1933), which was a changed-title re-release of Tell Your Children (1922) with additional added contemporary footage, NOT actually a re-edited re-release of Marriage on Approval a changed-title re-release of a 1922 silent exploitation film with added footage lifted from Marriage on Approval. Simple isn't it.
- Quotes
Larry Bennett: [to his wife, who is growing impatient] "Keep your pants, your shoes, keep them on!"
- ConnectionsEdited from Tell Your Children (1922)
Featured review
clunky yet fascinating early 30's exploitation patchwork
This feature, known as both PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTERS and RECKLESS DECISION (the latter is the title on my copy), features a frame story--shot on one small set-up with a static camera and actors talking in the manner of the padded footage in a Jerry Warren film such as ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY--and a core story from another film that takes up about 75% of the film. Interestingly, the credits contain the names of some of the actors in the frame story as well as actors CUT from the frame story! And the actors in the main story, including well-known William Farnum, are NOT listed in the credits. There's not much sleaze here if that's what you are looking for--this is even tamer than the sound version of ROAD TO RUIN. The credit for photographer Frank Zukor (aka Zucker) leads me to believe that the frame story may have been a NYC-based Bud Pollard production (Pollard is best-known today for his 1940's Black-cast films and for being president of the Screen Directors' Guild). Zukor shot Pollard's VICTIM OF PERSECUTION and some Yiddish-language features. Perhaps some Yiddish film scholar can enlighten us about the origin of this film. There's undoubtedly an interesting story behind this strange patchwork feature( While we're discussing exploitation films, I believe SEX MADNESS was also made by people who otherwise made Yiddish films). However, this film will be of interest ONLY to the serious student of exploitation films or odd patchwork features such as, say, GUN CARGO or CALL OF THE ROCKIES.
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- Protect Your Daughters
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- Runtime53 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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