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Three Bad Sisters

  • 1956
  • Approved
  • 1h 16min
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5,8/10
315
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Three Bad Sisters (1956)
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.
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA 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 he... Tout lireA 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.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.

  • Réalisation
    • Gilbert Kay
  • Scénario
    • Gerald Drayson Adams
    • Devery Freeman
  • Casting principal
    • Marla English
    • Kathleen Hughes
    • Sara Shane
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    5,8/10
    315
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    • Réalisation
      • Gilbert Kay
    • Scénario
      • Gerald Drayson Adams
      • Devery Freeman
    • Casting principal
      • Marla English
      • Kathleen Hughes
      • Sara Shane
    • 11avis d'utilisateurs
    • 1avis de critique
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    Marla English
    Marla English
    • Vicki Craig
    Kathleen Hughes
    Kathleen Hughes
    • Valerie Craig
    Sara Shane
    Sara Shane
    • Lorna Craig
    John Bromfield
    John Bromfield
    • Jim Norton
    Jess Barker
    Jess Barker
    • George Gurney
    Madge Kennedy
    Madge Kennedy
    • Martha Craig
    Anthony George
    Anthony George
    • Tony Cadiz
    • (as Tony George)
    Marlene Felton
    • Nadine
    Nesdon Booth
    • Coroner
    • (non crédité)
    William Bryant
    William Bryant
    • Deputy Sheriff
    • (non crédité)
    Richard H. Cutting
    Richard H. Cutting
    • Sheriff
    • (non crédité)
    Bess Flowers
    Bess Flowers
    • Stenographer at Inquest
    • (non crédité)
    Brett Halsey
    Brett Halsey
    • Carlos - Artist
    • (non crédité)
    William Henry
    William Henry
    • Bill Gans - Reporter
    • (non crédité)
    Patsy Nayfack
    • Mary - Jim's Secretary
    • (non crédité)
    Joe Ploski
    Joe Ploski
    • Grass Skirt Patron
    • (non crédité)
    Eric Wilton
    • Wilson the Butler
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Gilbert Kay
    • Scénario
      • Gerald Drayson Adams
      • Devery Freeman
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    4blanche-2

    Three bad sisters lead us through one bad film

    Bad script+bad acting+bad direction=no hope

    But it's one of those too rare so bad it's good movies.

    Three Bad Sisters stars three bad starlets: Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, and Sara Shane and is directed by Gilbert Kay.

    Someone said this is a remake of King Lear. On what planet? A wealthy man, Craig, apparently commits suicide while in a private plane piloted by Jim Norton (John Bromfield).

    Norton is cleared of any wrongdoing, but I could not clear him from monotone acting. He does throw Anthony George of Checkmate fame through a window, though.

    The family has some sort of suicide curse; one of the sisters (Shane) nearly jumped from the dangerous Devil's Bridge. You can bet that at some point she'll head back there.

    Well, all these babes want this pilot for different reasons, but other than for sex, it's never really spelled out. He's supposed to get involved with one sister and break up her romance with someone else, go into business with another sister - all very confusing.

    Vicki (Marla English) tells Jim she graduated from Embraceable U. Wonder how long it took to think up that line. Her wiles don't make it- he falls in love with Lorna (Sara Shane).

    One of the sisters, Valerie (Hughes) decides that dividing the estate by one is better so she sets out to destroy the other two, culminating in a fight with Vicki that ruins her looks and sends her over the edge. Her next stop is the romance between Jim and Lorna.

    Lorna has a great driving scene a la Lana Turner in The Bad and the Beautiful, i.e., hysterical while on the road, and she and Bromfield have a Lancaster-Kerr From Here to Eternity moment in the water.

    As Johnny Carson said, growing up he thought foreplay ended by drowning. You'll wish it were so after seeing this.
    8jromanbaker

    A Camp Classic

    I have a weakness for so called exploitation films made for the youth of America in the 50's and this is one of the best. I do not agree with one reviewer who said it was possibly the first soft core porn film made for the mainstream. Clearly the UK censor of the time had similar thoughts in mind and banned it. To my knowledge it has never played in a UK cinema or shown on television here. It has its moments of violence, but this is a film in the tradition of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Olivia de Havilland as the ' good ' sister. And yes in this black and white melodrama there is always a good sister and the good/slash bad hero goes for her. In fact in its over the top way it as moral as any major Hollywood film of the 40's or 50's. If anyone wants to check this point out take a look at ' Female on the Beach ' with Joan Crawford plus a male and female pimp selling Jeff Chandler in sexy swimsuits to the highest bidders. It is just as violent as this film plus a not too moral ending. This in contrast keeps more or less to the straight and narrow. But in its delirious and improbable scenario and in its acting it is a Camp film and Marla English stands out as really quite a good actress. And the ending in its crazy way reminded me of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in ' From Here to Eternity '. I would like to lay a bet it was on the mind of both director and writer. In all it is not to be missed just to see both how well made it is and how it makes censors often look like fools, especially in the UK in the 1950's.
    7Handlinghandel

    "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.
    7planktonrules

    Cheap, a bit trashy and still a lot of fun and surprisingly effective.

    This is a very low budget soapy thriller--and it makes no attempt to be anything other than entertaining. It ain't the least bit sophisticated and is a bit silly--but it IS enjoyable on a low-brow level. Just sit back and watch the fireworks. I guarantee you won't be bored!

    "Three Bad Sisters" begins with a plane crash. A rich guy is killed--leaving his vast fortune to three really screwed up but beautiful daughters (sort of like really bad versions of Hilton girls). One daughter, Valerie (Kathleen Hughes), is greedy and wants to force the pilot of the plane, Jim, to work with her to somehow cheat her sisters out of the money--but how is never really stated. The guy (John Bromfield) seems to have no choice and comes to stay with the family on a trumped up pretense. He soon learns that one of the sisters, Lorna (Sara Shane), is emotionally unstable and seems to be struggling with suicidal impulses--and she's by far the best of the bunch! Vicki (Marla Craig) is a combination nympho and home-wrecker. And, Valerie is just evil. What's Jim to do? And what exactly is Valerie's plan? Tune in to this VERY juicy film to find out more.

    Subtle it's not nor is it especially believable. But, it also it great fun and the actors do pretty well with what they've been given. Sure, a few characters are a bit broadly written but it never bores...never. It's sort of like a poor man's "Peyton Place"...on crack! I'd not say it's a great film but it's a wonderful guilty pleasure--the sort of overwrought trash that can be very difficult NOT to watch.
    Denise_Noe

    Three Bad Sisters: Badly Good Entertainment

    Directed by Gilbert Kay with a script co-written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Devery Freeman, the best thing about Three Bad Sisters is the three young beauties who are the title characters. Of course, as other reviewers have pointed out, there is a bit of a problem with the title since the three Craig sisters include two who are wicked and one who is virtuous. Blonde bombshell Valerie (Kathleen Hughes) and sultry brunette Vicky (Marla English) are in a competition for nastiest sister title; blonde beauty Lorna (Sara Shane) is sensitive, somewhat timid, but always well-meaning. The chief male love interest is hunky pilot Jim Norton (John Bromfield). As others have also pointed out, it is possible to count nasty sisters to three if we take the sister of the late father, Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy), into the mix.

    The film begins with the off camera plane crash death of the millionaire father of the main three. He was the sole passenger of pilot Jim Norton who survived. Was the pilot negligent? Did he even actually murder dear old dad? Will the three daughters share and share alike? Not likely. The movie poster shows the back of a woman's legs, the seams going up her stockings, and the legend: "What They Did To Men Was Nothing Compared To What They Did To Each Other!" The script has a super boo-boo at one point. Bad sister Valerie actually says to good sister Lorna, "It takes a woman to hold a man like Jim, not a psychopath!" Huh? What? Didn't Adams and Freeman know what a psychopath is?

    Dialogue makes more sense when an exasperated Jim exclaims, "I'm getting tired of being blamed for what goes on in this nuthouse!" As readers have probably guessed, Three Bad Sisters has no artistic pretensions, no moral pretensions, and no social or political "message." It is fast-paced, titillating, trashy fun. Plane crashes, car chases, intense confrontations, dirty dealings among the fabulously wealthy, flirting and cheating, all make for a flavorsome popcorn box of a movie. It is especially good at underlining the sensual charms of its female protagonists as when Vicky raises her shapely high-heeled legs up from her position on a couch.

    Kathleen Hughes enjoyed a rich and varied career that lasted most of her life. Perhaps her most well-remembered achievement was a photograph of her in an attitude of terror, hands thrown up, eyes super wide, mouth open as if in a scream. The famous picture is often used for comedic purposes and is iconic of a "scream queen." Both Sara Shane and Marla English left acting for other careers.

    Sara Shane had a busy acting career in the 1950s and early 1960s before retiring from acting in 1964. She went into business. In 2018, she directed a health center in Australia where she resided. She also published books, including a book entitled Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry. She returned to the cameras (in front of them and behind them) in 2008 when she wrote, produced, and co-presented the documentary One Answer to Cancer.

    Marla English started acting after winning a "Fairest of the Fair" beauty pageant while still in her teens. She bore a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor and was known as a scream queen. However, she left acting when she was only 21 years old to marry a wealthy business executive and become a housewife. She took care of his daughter from a pervious marriage and bore four sons.

    Although Three Bad Sisters did not call for great acting, it got adequate performances from all its major actors and can be counted a colorful feather in their caps, regardless of how long or short their acting careers were.

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      According to Kathleen Hughes, the interior mansion scenes were shot in a Bel Air mansion.
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      George Gurney: I'm only waiting until I'm you're brother-in-law to put you over my knee and give you a well-deserved spanking.

      Vicki Craig: Formal or bare-back?

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    • Date de sortie
      • janvier 1956 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Sites officiels
      • Streaming on "Donald P. Borchers" YouTubeChannel
      • Streaming on "Rob W" YouTubeChannel
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Ganoven, Halunken, flotte Weiber
    • Lieux de tournage
      • American National Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • Société de production
      • Bel-Air Productions
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      1 heure 16 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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