Chained for Life

Starring:Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Mario Laval, Allen Jenkins, Patricia Wright, Alan Keys, Norval Mitchell, Edna Holland, Brian O'Hara, Herbert Lytton, Jack Mulhall, Jim Hope, Roy Regnier, Zena Barry, Tony Lavello, Whitey Roberts, Paul Gordon, Sheldon Leonard
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

No ending
Long list of problems
The sound...arrrgghh....
"Nature never grants favours."
Wonderful Hilton Sisters EPIC!!!!!

Chained for Life
Starring: Violet Hilton , Daisy Hilton , Mario Laval , Allen Jenkins , and Patricia Wright
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001ZMXJ0
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Customer Reviews:

No ending.......2007-05-29

There were two reasons I bought this DVD, one being that I'm very interested in "Sideshow Freaks", so I really wanted to see the sisters. The other that I really wanted to know how they would punish the other sister in the movie.
But there is no ending, there's just a man that simply tells you that you have to decide for yourself what you think the punishment should be.
Very dissapointing!

The acting isn't very good, especially not the sisters. The blonde one sounds bored when she should say "I'm so happy!".

The good parts were the performances on stage, I especially thought the guy on the bicicle was cool.
The sisters singing is good, it's so sad that the sound quality was so bad!
The plot was good, even though the sisters didn't act good, it did told how hard it can be to always be stuck together.

Long list of problems.......2007-05-07

This DVD release is mastered from a VHS dub copy of a 16mm dupe print, so no wonder the sound is horribly distorted (as many have pointed out), and the detail of the picture is washed out. You can see the squiggly videotape artifacts from the minute the opening credits start. In brighter scenes, you can barely see any detail of some of the characters' faces (this is evidence that the original source was a dupe of a positive print rather than a positive print made from a negative) and this probably explains the poor sound as well. Then, the dub to videotape further degraded the quality. If Alpha Video couldn't come up with better source material, they should've passed on this title. Considering this film's obscurity, I wasn't expecting miracles, but this is one of the worst DVD releases I've come across. Avoid.

The sound...arrrgghh...........2006-07-20

To the voyueristic among you yearning for a peep at the sex life of siamese twins, don't believe the hype on the box. Sizzleless exploiter featuring the Hilton sisters (of Freaks fame), posed as a courtroom drama centering on wether a judge can sentence both sisters for a murder only one comitted. Yes, there's the obligitory square up at the end, as silly as any of em. The dream sequence is sufficeintly weird, with Daisy being stunt doubled except for her close ups peeking through the tree. Oh, and there's a bumbling plate juggler, an organ played by rifle shots and a blind preacher waxing boringly about nature not "granting favors". The Hiltons sing a few songs. Besides that, the sound is atrocious and the print ain't much butter...er, better. Intrigued by this film after seeing Freaks? So was I. It didn't fail to disappoint. Not a total disaster, but not really worthwhile either.

"Nature never grants favours.".......2005-02-12

The film "Chained For Life" features real-life Siamese twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton starring as singers Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton. The Hamilton sisters' low-life manager, Hinkley (Allen Jenkins) concocts a publity stunt scheme which involves one of the sisters marrying sleazy marksman, Andre Pariseau (Mario Laval). Pariseau goes along with the scheme because he wants top billing, and one of the sisters goes along with it because she'd like to have love and romance in her life.

The film shamelessly exploits the physical problems of being a Siamese twin, and the plot flirts with such salacious possibilities as how would the married couple have any privacy. In one scene we're told that 27 states refuse the couple a marriage license as a marriage between Andre and a Siamese twin is considered bigamous. As the story develops, the implications of being a Siamese twin become much more serious when one of the twins faces the death penalty for murder. One twin commits the crime, but in essence both would serve the sentence. The film is all courtroom drama with flashbacks as various witnesses give their testimony.

The acting in "Chained for Life" is fairly dismal, but the musical numbers are good quality. The sound quality, however, is not great, and the film is a bit crackly. "Chained for Life" has little beyond the curiosity factor to recommend it, and all I can say is that I hope the singing Hilton sisters earned some serious money from making this film--displacedhuman

Wonderful Hilton Sisters EPIC!!!!!.......2004-06-11

Well maybe not epic, but very amusing and CHEAP!!
The Hilton Sisters (looking considerably older than in FREAKS) star in this bizarre overly long murder film where one of the sisters commit murder, but no one can decide how to punish the murderess since her and her sister are attached at the hip.
Definately a fun old cheesy flick, filled to the brim with ancient vaudeville style acts that usually preceed the The Hilton Sisters singing some kind of schtick.
Some of the dialogue in this film is delivered so woodenly that you wonder what the heck Daisy and Violet were taking. Maybe it should be called "Dosed For Life".

Also worth noting is that this DVD from ALPHA has the absolute worst SOUND quality I've ever heard. RHINO'S older VHS release sounds much better.

The sound quality really is SO BAD that it can hardly be watched at all. Pure TORTURE.

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