(in the next sequence), the club owner is beaten by Nazi thugs.On their way home, Sally explains to Brian her strange occupation as a shocking denizen of the garish club in which she fantasizes herself as a star:"That""s me, darling.She watched another cockroach entrapped near her, and saw Freddy""s enlarged eye peering in at her through a slit in the box.Bambiwas not only a charming and simple tale, but also uncompromising, recalling the surprisingly dark themes and scenes of two earlier Disney films:Pinocchio (1940)with its scary "Pleasure Island" sequence, andDumbo (1941)with alcohol-caused hallucinations in the "Pink Elephants on Parade" sequence, and the capture of Dumbo""s mother Mrs.Into the searing sun elsewhere walks a weakened and dehydrated Shears.Vultures begin to gather above him as he crawls hrough a parched wilderness.A vulture""s shadow turns into a colorful kite (of a red-headed bird), the playtoy of some local village boys - he is rescued.In an about-face, hey savagely turned her into a monstrous half-human, half-bird.The film featured a cornucopia of ""human oddities"" - real-life malformed people (true ""freaks""), including midgets, numerous dwarves including a knife-throwing Italian dwarf (Angeleno), four "pinheads" (Zip, Pip - or Elivra and Jenny-Lee Snow, Molina, and Schlitze) or microcephalics, and other notorious sideshow exhibits:Daisy and Violet Hilton - Siamese twinsJohnny Eck - a half-bodied boy (with only the upper half of his body and nothing below his waist)Prince Randian - the "Living Torso" or "Larva Man" (a man without limbs and legs who slithered on the ground, and smoked cigarettes)Josephine-Joseph - a Half-woman/Half-man androgynous hermaphroditeKoo Koo - The Bird Girl (aka Minnie Woolsey, suffering from progeria) with a feathery outfitand the very similar Elizabeth "Betty" Green (the "Stork Woman", aka Molina, a pinhead with dwarfism or nanocephaly)Olga Roderick - a Bearded LadyPeter Robinson (a "Human Skeleton," incredibly skinny), married to the Bearded LadyFrances O""Connor (Armless Girl) - a "Living Venus de Milo"Schlitze - a male, one of the ""pinheads"" who wore a dressIt was an out-of-the-ordinary picture not easily forgotten, causing both revulsion and fascination.