White slavery is not a topic that gets much play nowadays, but it gets a full writeup in this film. And I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing.

The film has a very strange setup. Garcia plays a man looking for his wife, who has been abducted in Tangiers. He finds that she has been forced to work in a brothel, The House of Dolls. He's discovered and killed. His friend Nader then takes it upon himself to figure out what happened to Garcia. What he uncovers is a white slavery ring run by magician Price, who uses the female volunteers from his magic act to stock The House.

The odd thing about this movie is that everything is presented rather matter-of-factly. There's no surprise to anything. We find out in the first five minutes what Price is doing. We already know what happened to Garcia and his wife. It's a suspense movie with no suspense. They throw in a twist at the end, but who cares? It has so little to do with the movie that it's completely irrelevant. There's other problems. Price is billed first, but has only about 20 mins of screen time (in the second half mostly), and he doesn't appear to be having any fun. All of the actors in the movie appear to be speaking English, yet it sounds as though the whole soundtrack (which is in English) has been looped. It's never boring, but there's no action, no excitement, no nothing. Price fans may not even enjoy this one.

At the beginning of "La casa de las mil munecas" (called "The House of 1,000 Dolls" in English), we get told that this is a tale of white slavery. I must ask: aren't people concerned when non-whites get enslaved? It just seems to me that they should have concentrated on black slavery, or shown white people and other races getting enslaved. And although I really like Vincent Price, it's sort of distracting to have him as the man running the brothel; you keep expecting to quote Edgar Allan Poe or something.

So, this movie isn't awful, it just takes a weird approach to everything. There are much better movies out there, and if they wanted to show a bunch of hot young women, they could have done it differently.

I really couldn't tell if he's on the location shoots there because most of his films are either in carts that could have been filmed anywhere or in theaters or other indoor sets. but for those lucky enough to have actually gone to Tangier, I hope they enjoyed the beauty of the location. It certainly beats the plot surrounding those sites.

This is a story of white slavery, girls kidnapped and forced into prostitution, and the efforts of visitor George Nader to help find a missing friend. He is chased around Tanger by two men in black (humorously borrowing a blasting water hose from someone washing their boat), then finds out that his wife has been kidnapped and well I'm here being prepared for a life in the House of a thousand dolls.

This never gets any more risky than showing a few women in their undies, often in comical way. give this film some credit for interesting photography, some angles that clearly were inspired by Hitchcock. A fight on a long staircase is particularly memorable. but the film itself has a ridiculously bad screenplay, having incidents occur that have had nothing seem to lead up to them, and even Price's participation as one of the top men behind the house never rings to be completely true.

Price does a brief magic act with his wife, basically an insipid style of magic you seen a thousand times, one for each doll. the film is boring and often stagnant, and some of the characters who pop in and out of the action are extremely obnoxious, particularly the harsh looking woman in charge of the kidnapped women and the persistent photographer who keeps harassing Nader in an early scene. If it wasn't for Price, Nader and the location photography, I would have ranked this as a complete bomb.