{"id":972,"date":"2006-04-19T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=972"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:13:39","slug":"chained-for-life-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Chained for Life (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;If I have a date, you have a date too, my dear.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster-91x128.png 91w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster-191x270.png 191w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Poster.png 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA conjoined twin (Violet Hilton) shoots her sister&#8217;s con-artist husband (Mario Laval), and stands on trial for murder.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Con-Artists<\/li>\n<li>Courtroom Drama<\/li>\n<li>Singers<\/li>\n<li>Twins<\/li>\n<li>Vaudeville and Burlesque<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;extremely dull&#8221; exploitation film starring conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton truly is a &#8220;curio&#8221; more than anything else. As in the Hilton sisters&#8217; only other movie (Tod Browning&#8217;s cult classic, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1845\"><em>Freaks<\/em><\/a>), &#8220;freaks&#8221; of nature are cruelly used and jilted by the &#8220;normal&#8221; folks around them &#8212; but in this case, the &#8220;freaks&#8221; are forced to stand trial in &#8220;normal&#8221; society rather than banding together to mete out vigilante justice. Despite its dull storyline, however, <em>Chained for Life<\/em> does include several interesting scenes (as when Violet is &#8220;fantasizing she is a normal woman and dancing with [her lover]&#8221;), and it presents viewers with some provocative dilemmas: Would <em>you <\/em>sentence Violet for what she did? And what <em>would<\/em> happen, logistically speaking, if one of a pair of conjoined twins was sentenced to jail?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An interesting take on the intense loyalty twins may feel for each other (but done much to much better effect by Olivia De Haviland in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35\"><em>The Dark Mirror<\/em>, 1946<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-1024x753.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-128x94.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still-367x270.png 367w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Still.png 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dorothy&#8217;s fantasy dream sequence<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-1024x772.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-1024x772.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2-358x270.png 358w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Chained-for-Life-Dream2.png 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Watch the infinitely superior <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1845\"><em>Freaks<\/em> (1932)<\/a> to get a more interesting, albeit shorter, glimpse of the Hilton twins.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0043397\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=837\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I have a date, you have a date too, my dear.&#8221; Synopsis: A conjoined twin (Violet Hilton) shoots her sister&#8217;s con-artist husband (Mario Laval), and stands on trial for murder. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Con-Artists Courtroom Drama Singers Twins Vaudeville and Burlesque Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this &#8220;extremely dull&#8221; exploitation film starring conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton truly is a &#8220;curio&#8221; more than anything else. As in the Hilton sisters&#8217; only other movie (Tod&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=972\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61629,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/61629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}