Child Bride (1938)★ 4.5/10
- Drama
Directed by: Harry Revier
Written by: Harry Revier
A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
- Original title
- Child Bride
- Storyline
- Twelve-year-old Jennie lives with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher Miss Carol, a mountain girl herself, went off to get educated and has returned hoping to stop the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who warn her to call off her crusade. One of those threatening men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on young Jennie and plots to make her his bride.
- Rating
- 4.5 / 10 · 1,174
- Companies
- Kroger Babb Attractions (KBA), Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Eros Nights OTT, Mill Creek Entertainment, Something Weird Video (SWV)
- Release dates
- US March 2, 1938
- FR May 26, 1948
- SE September 13, 2025