Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling

Name: Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 25, 2005
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 62

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Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies Of Wrestling

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Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling

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Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: March 25, 2005

Summary: This documentary shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. (Ruthless Films)

Director: Ruth Leitman

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 83 min

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Paula Nechak

The film dwells more on the sensationalistic aspects than the sport itself but it's impossible to deny the tawdry entertainment value in this compelling film tabloid. Read full review

David Sterritt

An entertaining look at a genuinely offbeat subject. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

What makes Lipstick & Dynamite its own animal is that, intentionally or not, the director has allowed something else into the mix, a glimpse of the unvarnished and the unsanitized. Read full review

David Rooney

Smart assembly of terrific archive footage is matched by spirited interviews with the tough old broads today. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The documentary visits elderly women who, then and now, can best be described as tough broads, and listens as they describe the early days of women's wrestling. What they say is not as revealing as how they say it. Read full review

Stephen Holden

This visually stylish work, with its vintage glamour photos, film and television clips, and snippets from a 1951 B-movie, "Racket Girls," is more of a scrapbook than a coherent history of the sport during its rough-and-tumble infancy. Read full review

Peter Hartlaub

At its best, the movie is a collection of entertaining memories from a group of gutsy women. Read full review

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JimG.

Sep 10, 2005

Leitman has drawn out, mostly in the unspoken moments, a wonderful story of contrast: paths chosen and unchosen, modesty and arrogance, school learning and school of hard knocks. In many ways these women inhabit a world of their own but their story says a lot about the world around them. What fun.

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