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- 1932
- Tod Browning
- 62 mins
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Summary
Controversial horror starring Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams. Trapeze artist Cleopatra is in love with the circus strong man but, once she learns that Hans the midget has inherited a fortune, she responds to his advances and plans to murder him for his money.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Alan Jones
Still banned in some countries, and suppressed in others for decades, this unique classic from Tod Browning, director of the original Dracula, remains one of the most nightmarish yet compassionate horror movies ever made. Browning cleverly draws the viewer into an enclosed carnival society (featuring real circus anatomical oddities essentially playing themselves) with its attendant bonds, codes and rituals, and then chillingly shows what happens when a "normal" human - conniving trapeze artist Olga Baclanova - breaks them with a swindling scam. A deserved cult masterpiece, this tale of the macabre, with its blood-freezing shock ending, is incredible, disturbing and, once seen, never forgotten.
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rolenamePhrosoWallace FordVenusLeila HyamsCleopatraOlga BaclanovaRoscoeRoscoe AtesHerculesHenry VictorHansHarry EarlesFriedaDaisy EarlesMadame TetralliniRose DioneSiamese TwinDaisy HiltonSiamese TwinViolet HiltonHalf BoyJohnny Eck
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rolenameDirectorTod Browning
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Theatrical distributor
Metrodome
Released on
2015-06-12
Languages
English | German | French
Guidance
Contains some violence.
Available on
video and DVD
Formats
Black and white
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