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Not Wanted
Directed by
Elmer Clifton
,
Ida Lupino
Not Rated
1949
1h 31m
Drama
6.8
80%
47%
6.8
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After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
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Cast of Not Wanted
Sally Forrest
Sally Kelton
Keefe Brasselle
Drew Baxter
Leo Penn
Steve Ryan
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Kelton
Wheaton Chambers
Mr. Kelton
Rita Lupino
Joan
Audrey Farr
Nancy
Carole Donne
Jane
Ruth Clifford
Mrs. Stone
Ruthelma Stevens
Miss James
Virginia Mullen
Infant's Mother
Marie Harmon
Irene
Roger Anderson
Bill
Gregg Barton
Patrolman
Charles Seel
Doctor Williams
Lawrence Dobkin
Asst. District Attorney
Patrick Whyte
Reverend Culbertson
Tom Coleman
Townsman (uncredited)
Diane Fauntelle
Prisoner (uncredited)
Bob Jellison
Bartender (uncredited)
Not Wanted Ratings & Reviews
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Yet unlike many similar films of the late 40s and 50s, which took a "there but for the grace of god go I" point of view toward societal issues, Lupino's films replaced pity with empathy, and she treated her characters with compassion rather than judgment.
Citizen Dame
Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Not Wanted effectively exposes women's internalization of shame surrounding sex and motherhood-to Sally, the baby is a proof of her shame, a physical manifestation of her social rejection, and the rejection of a man who did not love her.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A startling blend of compassion and invention.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A well-intentioned candid melodrama about an unwed mother's plight.
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