The Sinful Dwarf

Also Known As
Dvaergen (Denmark)
Haus der verlorenen Mädchen, Das (West Germany)
Teenage Bride (Netherlands) (video box title) 
Abducted Bride (US re-issue title, 1974) 

Main Details
Released in 1973
Color
Running Time: 92 min
Distribution Co: Boxoffice International Pictures 

Cast and Crew
Directed by Vidal Raski
Produced By Nicolas Poole
Cinematography by Lasse Bjorne
Music by Ole Orsted
Written by Harlan Asquith and William Mayo
Starring: Torben Bille, Anne Sparrow, Tony Eades, Clara Keller and Werner Hedman

I'm going to come right out and say it.  I don't really like this movie.  In fact, I'm not even sure why I chose to do a review on it.  I saw it for the first time about nine months ago and thought it was ok, but nothing special. But trying to watch it again for this review sucked the life out of me.  Perhaps it's because I'm not a huge fan of the sexploitation genre or maybe it's because the film's only redeeming quality is that it has a sinful dwarf.  And he's not even that sinful...  but Anne Sparrow is hot.

Essentially the plot is this: a pair of penniless newlyweds, Peter (Tony Eades) and Mary (Anne Sparrow) need a cheap place to stay and they chance upon an affordable rooming house, which happens to be owned by a crazy drunk lady who likes to dress up as Carmen Miranda and sing, and they rent a room.  She has a son named Olaf (Torben Bille), a dwarf, who just so happens to be of the sinful variety and who really seems to like plaid.

What Peter and Mary don't know is that the drunk crazy lady is also a pimp and keeps women chained up on the top floor.  Olaf lures them to the rooming house with toys where the women are drugged with heroin and used by paying customers.  The heroin is concealed in stuffed animals that Olaf gets from a dealer named "Santa" who owns a toy shop called "Santa's Work Shop," and then smuggled to the residence to cool the addictions of the caged heat upstairs. Peter is a struggling writer and is forced to take a job to make ends meet and of course he gets hired to work at Santa's Work Shop.

Here comes Santa Claus.

While Peter is in Paris unknowingly acting as a drug mule, Anne begins snooping around the rooming house and finds the locked quarters where the drugged-up hookers are kept.  She is discovered by the crazy drunk lady and her flannel wearing dwarf and they proceed to chain her up as one of the prostitutes.  Will she get away?  Will Peter return in time to prevent her from becoming a sex crazed drug addict?  You'll have to watch this cinematic monstrosity to find out.

I do recommend that everyone see this movie once, but only once, as a second viewing may make you so depressed that you'll want to shove a cane up your own *edited for content.*  Here is what makes this movie unique:

- A sinful freakin' dwarf!
- Heroin addicted sex slaves
- Drunk old women performing musical numbers
- A drug dealer called Santa Claus
- A walking cane and a sensitive part of a woman's anatomy

Violence Rating: 2 out of 5
Booby Rating: 5 out of 5