Top cast:Wallace Reid,Hector Dion,Charles Herman
Director:Boaz Yakin
Genre:History
Region:Lebanon
Year:1999
Storyline:Midge asks him about his "aches or pains." He exults, hopefully, that he will be a "free man" the following day when his painful ("it binds") but therapeutic feminine corset is removed and he can dispose of his cane "out the window" - an ironic choice of words.As the barker (Russell Hopton) tempts a crowded audience to enter and view the attractions (including Joe the Turtle Boy), a carnival pickpocket named Slick Wiley (Ralf Harolde) works the crowd:Right this way, folks! Gather round.They begin to find fault with everything he does and they harrass him endlessly.He receives "the Treatment" in order to break his spirit - undesirable tasks, emotional harrassment, physical abuse, extra marching duty from Sergeant Baldy Dhom (Claude Akins), and double-time laps around the track for having a poorly-assembled rifle during gun inspection.Using cinematic methods ahead of their time and influencing a whole generation of future film-makers, he included a crane shot and spectacular crowd scenes and exterior sets (and live elephants!) for the fantastic Babylonian sequence.