Three Bad Sisters (1956)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Gilbert Kay

Writers:

Gerald Drayson Adams (writer)
Devery Freeman (story)

Release Date:

January 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

THEY STOPPED AT NOTHING!!!! (original print ad - all caps)

Plot:

A millionaire dies in an airplane crash, leaving all of his money to be divided among his three daughters. One of the daughters doesn't want to share any of it, so she plans to get rid of her two sisters. |

Plot Keywords:

Sister | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Marla English	...	Vicki Craig
Kathleen Hughes	...	Valerie Craig
Sara Shane	...	Lorna Craig
John Bromfield	...	Jim Norton
Jess Barker	...	George Gurney
Madge Kennedy	...	Martha Craig
Anthony George	...	Tony Cadiz (as Tony George)
Marlene Felton	...	Nadine

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Bel-Air Productions

"I graduated summa cum laude from Embraceable U"

That hilarious line is typical of what these naughty sisters say. (It's funny on its own terms and pretty funny unintentionally , too.) Only two of the sisters are really bad. Boy, are they bad, too! One is given to pinup poses and salacious comments where e'er she goes. The other is got up to look like Marilyn Monroe. She has those sensual, slightly parted lips. And, not to give anything away, she is even more bad than the other.

All three sisters are played by starlets. The man who stumbles into their lives is played by John Bromfield. He had something of a career.

This looks today like possibly the first mainstream soft-core porn ever marketed. Well, of course not the first but the raciest at that time.

The girls wear as little as possible and let's not forget about the female audience members: Bromfield is shown shaving with an electric razor -- whose fetish was this? -- bare-chested. He also is shown sopping wet in a swimsuit.

There's a real plot here, too: The girls' family, see, is cursed. They are prone to suicide -- or dramatic deaths that can be made to seem like suicide.

The movie is not bad. I truly don't know where it was shown. Maybe it was made for drive-ins. Somehow, and I could be wrong, I felt that the typical male audience was not the primary target here. The women are scantily dressed. They often resemble lurid covers of mags like Police Detective or jackets of dime novels.

But the guy seems to be the central focus. Not everyone in the movie likes him, but all the girls love him. And I think the audience is meant to also.

It's lots of fun -- and on its own terms, too.