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- 1932 · Horror · 1h 4m
Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, [unreliable source?] Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates and Harry Earles.
Freaks: Directed by Tod Browning. With Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates. A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
- (51K)
- Drama, Horror
- Tod Browning
- 1932-02-20
Dec 25, 2018 · Because, the freaks are all evil, from youngest to oldest. And only use their victimhood as a cover for their true selves. They would kill you just as well as look at you! This is Tod Browning's celluloid masterpiece.
- 64 min
- 75.1K
- AymericD-M
Freaks. The most transgressive film produced by a major American studio in the 1930s, Tod Browning’s crowning achievement has haunted the margins of cinema for nearly one hundred years. An unforgettable cast of real-life sideshow performers portray the entertainers in a traveling circus who, shunned by mainstream society, live according to ...
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- Freaks was originally intended to be a Lon Chaney vehicle. The story of Freaks as a film project apparently dates back to at least 1925, and the MGM silent drama The Unholy Three, which was directed by Browning and starred “Man of a Thousand Faces” Lon Chaney.
- MGM wanted Freaks to rival Dracula as a horror movie. Though there were certainly monstrous characters populating various silent films (particularly those portrayed by Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera and London After Midnight), the horror film as a genre didn’t really take off until the era of talkies began.
- Casting the "Freaks" in Freaks was an intense process. Aiming for authenticity, Browning sought real sideshow attractions and performers to play the “freaks” at the heart of the story instead of relying on movie magic (as he so often had with Chaney) to portray them.
- Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow were originally considered to co-star in Freaks. Casting the other characters in Freaks may not have required as much of an outside-the-studio effort, but it was nonetheless met with a few challenges.
When trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) learns that circus midget Hans (Harry Earles) has an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal...
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However, there has never been, there will likely never be, a film quite like Tod Browning's Freaks (1932). Set in a European freak show, cast with authentic human oddities from throughout North America, Freaks presents a side of circus life seldom witnessed on film.
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