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Dwarf Major 
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TITLE |
Woman for Joe, A (1955) |
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DIRECTOR |
George Moore
O'Ferrell
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NOTES |
This is an
exploitation film which has no sense of its own |
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The owner of
a fair ground buys a dwarf rubber man to |
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enhance his
business. Jimmy Karoubil who plays George is |
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always
referred to as a midget. Technically this is or was |
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correct
since a little person who was proportionally small was |
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called a
midget, while one whose head was proportionally |
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bigger than
the body was called a dwarf. But for a while now |
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midget has
been considered an offensive term. Though when |
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I read
nearly everyday of people who are "wheel-bound" or |
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"afflicted"
with their disability one wonders how much has |
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But this
film has no self-consciousness. When you can buy a |
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"midget" for
£86 and sell him for £250 that's business. |
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The boss of
the fair is kind to his 'little friend'. On his birthday |
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he buys him
a dwarf woman for £100. But as George says "I |
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In a so
called accident but is really a bit of fun for them |
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George is
injured when the fair workers collapse a tent with |
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him inside
leaving him with a punctured lung and pneumonia. |
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As he
recovers a Hungarian singer joins the fair and he falls in love with "a
big woman". Unfortunately the fair's boss falls for her too. And
when George joins the trapeze act you know he's going
to die leaving the stage free for the "big man". |
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Notes
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