Sunday 5 June 2005

Chained for Life (1951)

I have wanted to see this classic exploitation pic for a long time but have never managed to locate a copy previously.  It was sheer perverse curiosity on my part to want to view a film starring (real) Siamese twins -- Daisy and Violet Hilton out of "Freaks" made nearly 20 years earlier.  While the Farrelly Brothers can get some cheap laughs out of conjoined twins in "Stuck on You" (best line: "We're not Siamese, we're American") there is nothing even vaguely amusing in this film.  A large part of the footage is made up of filmed vaudeville acts (sharing the bill with the singing sisters) and one can only regret that the ladies were lured back into a movie with no artistic merit whatsoever.  A sad, sad business -- so shame on me for watching it in the first place.

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