wes-connors As proprietor of a Hollywood "Escort Bureau", Betty Compson (as Ruth Ashley) procures young men and women for paying customers. The kind-hearted madam has kept her business a secret from fetching young daughter Margaret Marquis (as June Ashley), who spends her time in finishing school. But, things get complicated when innocent Ms. Marquis goes home to live with Mother Compson.Marquis' good-looking fiancé Robert Kellard (as Drake Hamilton) also arrives. Soon, authorities move in on the racket run by Ms. Compson and partner Wheeler Oakman (as Gregory Stone). Fiancé Kellard goes undercover as a male escort, to investigate the area's illegal trade. Guy Kingsford (as Breeze Nolan) is the ringleader."Escort Girl" is a chance to see former silent screen great Betty Compson in a later years role. And, a generous scene features women in various stages of undress. Sporting a figure you won't forget, the dancer in pasties is a titillating highlight. Handsome gigolos Kellard and Rick Vallin are kept fully dressed.**** Escort Girl (1941) Eddie Kaye ~ Betty Compson, Robert Kellard, Margaret Marquis

sol1218 **SPOILERS**Shocking expose of the sleazy escort business back in the 1940's and how it destroyed those who were involved in it without even knowing it! Having nothing but the best in life young June Ashley, Margaret Marquis, didn't know that her mom Ruth, Betty Compson, was running a string of escort services, using both men as well as women, in and around L.A and its suburbs. It was when June together with her fiancée Drake Hamilton, Robert Kellard, paid her mom a surprise visit that the awful truth was to come out. What Ruth and her partner in the escort business Greg Stone, Wheeler Oakman, were to soon find out is that Drake is working undercover for the the L.A district attorney, who just happens to be Drake's dad, to gets the goods on the escort racket and put it, together with sleaze-balls like Ruth & Greg, out of business! Getting the jump on Drake in him knowing what he's planing to do Greg sets up Ruth's unsuspecting daughter June in a sting that Drake, and the D.A's office, is setting for him. Posing as a male escort-A greasy gigolo-Drake is stunned to find out that his first woman costumer is non-other then his fiancée June Ashley herself! This all leads to June to walk out on Drake feeling that he's running around with other women and Drake, who didn't know that this whole scenario was set up by the sleazy and manipulative Greg Stone, feel that June, not himself who was undercover as a gigolo, was working for Greg as one of his escort girls!The biggest fireworks in the movie are left for last with June now dead drunk, courtesy of Greg providing her all the free booze, confronting her unsuspecting, who showed unexpectedly, mom Ruth Ashley at Grege's penthouse! Thinking that Grege is cheating on her behind her back, until she realized that the "other woman" was her own daughter June, Ruth has it out with Greg as Drake, also unexpectedly, shows up! What happens next is is just too shocking and mind numbing to put down on paper! You'll have to, by getting a hold of the DVD "Escort Girl", see it, if you can keep yourself from cracking up from laughing, for yourself!

dougdoepke Okay, no Oscar bait here. The only question is whether this exploitation flick is bad enough to be good. In my book, there're not enough campy moments to qualify for Ed Wood territory. The trouble is middle-age actors Compson and Oakman are simply too accomplished and get too much screen time to bring down the material to subterranean levels. The young couple qualify with some truly sappy moments and bad acting, but unfortunately those are overcome by their two elders. For the voyeur crowd, which includes myself, the girls' underwear conflabs are more like sorority get-togethers than a bunch of hookers exchanging tricks of the trade. Too bad. Ahh…nevertheless, there is that one brief shining moment when this really shapely little number comes out of nowhere to peel down to pasties and fringed g-string that makes the whole 70 minutes worthwhile. I love the bad lighting that made the scene look like an out-take from a stag film. I suppose the producers figured they needed to deliver more than chatty escorts and naughty innuendo to the balcony crowd. Anyway, I'm sorry to say that this cheapie just isn't distinguished enough to enter that rarefied circle of demonic druggies, promiscuous teens, and wayward women, otherwise known as 30's camp classics.

classicsoncall The only other reviewer at the time of my posting states that the quality of his VHS transfer was excellent, while my 'remastered' DVD print is about as second rate as they come. A lot of jump cuts and missed dialog however doesn't hurt the flow of the story all that much, but even so, what you're left with it are some of the most over the top melodramatic performances you'll find coming out of the era. All in service to the melodramatic nature of the story, as an undercover investigator attempts to expose the ring leaders of an escort bureau. Drake Hamilton's (Robert Kellard) mission becomes complicated when his fiancée is set up to make a call on him as a 'date' from the escort service, but the arrangement is so awkward you'll wonder why June (Margaret Marquis) just didn't explain the whole story when she got to his room.I'm always amazed at the way times have progressed when it comes to how expensive things are today. The fee for an escort back then - ten dollars plus expenses while on the date!!! That didn't include any business the gals did on the side, I guess that's where entrepreneurial ability came in.There are some genuinely laughable scenes here, not all of which were meant to be I'm sure. One which had a lush (Arthur Houseman) walking into a fern a couple of times, making this viewer wonder which of the two was more potted. And gee, I wonder how many drinks it would take to make a high roller like Snuggles (Isabel La Mal) look good. But the scene that will have you sit up and take notice is the dancing stripper, didn't she have a nice pair of ... legs?The grand finale really goes for the gusto, and I for one actually wondered how investigator Hamilton was going to explain the whole thing to the authorities. Now that would have made for a great sequel!