SCHLOCK TREATMENT CLINIC: Child Bride (1938)

CHILD BRIDE (1938) Tonight we have finally uncovered a film so inherently evil, even WE had to censor it: from a world which believes that ten year old fruit are ripe for the plucking comes the 1938 Child Bride.

“We aim neither to ridicule nor defend their way of living.” So begins one of the most hateful examples of hicksploitation from 1938, posing as a plea to outlaw child marriage amongst hillbillies – the po’ White Trash huddled in mountain communities far away from civilization’s disapproving gaze.

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