The movie stars Wallace Ford (The Rainmaker, A Lawless Street), Leila Hyams (The Big House, The Sins of the Children), Olga Baclanova (The Man Who Laughs, The Docks of New York), Roscoe Ates (Black Hills, Stars Over Texas), Henry Victor (King of the Zombies, The Beloved Rogue), Henry Earles, Daisy Hilton (Chained for Life) and Violet Hilton (Chained for Life).
The movie is set at a circus. The trapeaze artist marries a dwarf to get his money and then poisen him. She then plans to marry the strong man, who tries to rape someone. The trapeaze artist and strong man get what they deserve in the end of the movie. The sideshow performers learn of the plan and get there revenge.
I liked the introduction for the movie it was a paragraph or two long and scrowled on the screen. I have heard about this movie for a few years maybe 10 or 15 years. So going into it I was expecting something a lot more disturbng. It was not as bad as Iexpected. Evidedntly at the time it had to be cut, up to 30 minutes, by the diffrent states to get it to be shown. I never got the idea that the movie was outwardly mean to the freaks. Some characters are mean but it was not vindictive to the freaks
The discomefort that may be caused should be pushed through and peopel should see this movie. The documentary, about an hour, is interistng.
I was reading some reviews on Netflix. I skimmed about 10 pages of them and they were pretty positive. I would expect some of them to go on about the possible explotative nature of the film.
Im rating this movie as a B. Not sure what age group I would say this is for but as someone with no kids I dont have to figure that out.
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