Late Friday TCM is going for broke, carny-style.  Starting at 1 am central/2 am eastern, TCM has lined up a handful of cult movies featuring little people and other actors of unusual physical appearance.   

The first movie up is 1938's The Terror of Tiny Town, which is a Western musical drama (it's like I'm picking words out of a hat, right?) cast entirely with lttle people, many of whom would go on to be munchkins in The Wizard of Oz the following year.  IMDB gives it a whopping 2.4 stars out of 10, but the reviews reveal a serious struggle to adequately describe the movie.  Many of the reviewers appear to be conflicted about whether it's okay to laugh at the cast, especially when most agree that the cast approaches the material almost as if they were - get this - serious actors (spoiler: they were serious actors).

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