The younger of two sisters is sufficiently attractive to steal the other's admirers. To stop this pirating, mother and elder sister conceive the idea of putting the baby vamp into rompers, leaving her a baby, but no longer a vamp.
In the dim-lit corridors of early sound cinema, Saving Sister Susie emerges as a grotesque yet compelling artifact of pre-Code experimentation. This 1931 melodrama, directed with a curious blend of sincerity and artifice by Walter Graham, positions the Devore sisters in a familial power struggle that veers from farc...
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" In the dim-lit corridors of early sound cinema, Saving Sister Susie emerges as a grotesque yet compelling artifact of pre-Code experimentation. This 1931 melodrama, directed with a curious blend of sincerity and artifice by Walter Graham, positions the Devore sisters in a familial power struggle that veers from farcical to disturbing with alarming ease. The film's most jarring innovation lies in its refusal to differentiate between physical transformation and identity erasure—a theme that rev..."
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