Babies for Sale

Babies for Sale

Mothers! What would you take for your baby?

NR 1940 · 65 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

Directed by Charles Barton · Written by Robert Hardy Andrews

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