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Deborah Baxter deserves top billing!


Her name should be right under Anthony Quinn's on the cast page since she is actually the co-lead of the movie. I don't know why her name is buried so far back in the credits but this oversight really ought to be corrected.

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Thank you but there was a reason behind it. I was meant to be Introducing Deborah Baxter but there was a lot of problems with the law at that time re the 'White Slavery Act'. In fact 20th Century Fox knowing that my family took holidays in the South of France every summer decided that it would be a good idea to holiday that summer in Jamaica and then could discover me out there! So they paid for the whole family to holiday that summer in Jamaica. And I think the reason that I wasnt 'Introducing' was not to draw attention to me. At one point in time the whole film was put on hold until they came up with that decision.

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Hello Deborah, and thank you for responding to this post. One wonders if the "Introducing..." portion was in the film, your cinema career may have taken a different track.

Be that as it were, I was wondering about your mentioning of the "The White Slave Act". The only reference point I had was also known as "The Mann Act" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act, which does not seem applicable to filming. Was there something in perhaps UK law for filming children in Jamaica that may have been the issue?

Thanks again for your thoughts on this.

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