Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Safe in Hell is a 1931 pre-Code Warner Bros. melodrama film directed by William Wellman and starring Dorothy Mackaill and Donald Cook with featured performances by Morgan Wallace, Ralf Harolde, Noble Johnson and Nina Mae McKinney.PlotGilda Karlson (Dorothy Mackaill) is a New Orleans prostitute accused of murdering the man who was responsible for her falling from her life as a secretary and becoming a call girl, so her old boyfriend, sailor Carl Erickson (Donald Cook), smuggles her to safety: Tortuga, an island in the Caribbean from where she can not be extradited. On the island, Gilda and Carl get "married", but without a clergyman to offibecoming a call girl, so her old boyfriend, sailor Carl Erickson (Donald Cook), smuggles her to safety: Tortuga, an island in the Caribbean from where she can not be extradited. On the island, Gilda and Carl get "married", but without a clergyman to officiate, and she swears to be faithful to him.