Child Bride (1938)

★★★★ · Moral of Story · drchring · 2013-02-26

NEVER EVER even THINK ABOUT tossing a Dwarf!!!!!!

★★★ · Not quite what you expect · J.Sheridan · 2017-06-02

I first saw this movie back in college, for a film class. We were (not surprisingly) discussing censorship in movies. The Hays Code in particular. You can look it up if you're curious, but it bans quite a lot. Child Bride was produced outside the studio system where they didn't have to care about the Hays rules. For those who might be wondering, since there seem to be conflicting statements in other reviews, yes - the date of birth listed for actress Shirley Mills on imdb is in fact correct. She was 12 at the time. To the day she died, she herself never felt exploited by the production. But…

★★★ · Worth A Watch · emailcjk · 2009-12-10

This movie is about the practice of child marriage in what looks like the Ozarks area. But there is more to this movie than just that. I think that it also tries to show the struggles that were faced by the people that lived in that time and place. The acting is pretty good although a little stiff. The plot is fairly well written but, could have been better. There are certain things about this movie that some will find disturbing. All and all it is worth a watch.

★★★ · Reality can be troubling · rclo · 2011-12-26

This (short) movie encapsulates a real, if troubling, aspect of small, isolated communities, whether a mountain community, a jungle tribe or a current-day commune. One of the actors states the problem: "We don't have enough women." With a limited number of child-bearing women available, the men will aggressively pursue them. The problem comes in defining when a girl becomes a child-bearing-capable woman. One day, she isn't; the next day she is. There will always be men lined up to be the one who gets her, and someone will always jump the gun. A community as depicted in the film, which, I…

★★★ · Blackmailed forcible wedding is the real issue here · I_loved_this movie! · 2011-07-26

In a pretty miserable looking community of barefoot moonshiners, there are two murders, one blackmail, one unexplained attempted murder, an attempted tar-and-feathering, and a funeral with goats dragged along (why?). Most other remarks in previous comments concern things that exist more in the commenters' own imaginations than in this film. Highlights of the movie were the attempted dwarf-toss and the swimming dog splashing water.