Battling Sisters

Battling Sisters

1929 · 16 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

Battling Sisters (1929) is a bizarre, futuristic gender-bending semi-spoof of ‘The Big Parade, with men and women’s roles reversed.Offering the spectacle of Wallace Lupino, in drag, vamping the helpless house husband Lane!

Directed by Lupino Lane

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