Born Innocent (1974)

Directed by Donald Wrye

Genres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Melodrama, Prison Film | Run Time - 92 min. | Countries - USA |

Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Born Innocent, originally telecast September 9, 1974, concerns the plight of a teenaged reform-school inmate, played by Linda Blair in her first important post-Exorcist role. Committed for being a habitual runaway, Blair is, for all her surface toughness, unworldly and naïve. All this changes in the reformatory, with Blair rapidly becoming as hard, callous, and irredeemable as her fellow detentionees. Even upon her probationary release, she shows no sign of being "cured" by her incarceration. The film's most notorious scene -- Blair's rape by broom-handle -- was all the more horrifying because there was no pre-show warning issued by the network. So disturbing was the sequence that it was removed from all subsequent network telecasts of Born Innocent.

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Born Innocent (1974)

Not Rated | 1h 38min | Drama | TV Movie 10 September 1974

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.

- Written by David Carroll

Director: Donald Wrye

Writers: Creighton Brown Burnham (book), Gerald Di Pego

Stars: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Allyn Ann McLerie

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