Sisters of the Silver Scalpel

A comic documentary about a team of researchers from television’s “Wilderness on Parade” and their expedition to Newfoundland to study a vanishing species of nun life known as “Sisters of the Silver Scalpel.” This “migrant prayer group” is accosted by a liberated coffee show hostess and force-fed hypnotizing birth control pills. The film ends with the capture of a young nun for placement in a zoo. Presented in the straightforward, television documentary fashion of the late 1950s, the use of clichés and exaggerations pokes fun at both style and subject.