Three Sisters (1970 film) flow his work deserves), and in the pacing there is somehow a sensuality and a sexuality underlying the work that I had not hitherto felt." Molly Haskell wrote that the film "boasts in Joan Plowright's Masha the finest performance I have seen or ever hope to see of one of Chekhov's greatest women characters." The film was first released as a region 1 DVD in 2004. A Blu-ray version was released in the US in 2017. Three Sisters (1970 film) Three Sisters is a 1970 British drama film starring Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright, based on the 1900
Cherry Sisters audiences who were curious to see the act the "New York Times" referred to as "Four Freaks from Iowa". The "Times," in their assessment of the sisters, considered the act "more pitiable than amusing" and noted "...the effects of poverty, ignorance, and isolation are much the same all over the world, and the Cherry sisters exhibited every one of them with a pathetic frankness that left no question as to their status or their character." The sisters were known for their rigid moral standpoints both on and off-stage. While living in New York during their run at the Olympia, they