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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.
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- 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.
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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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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 his...
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- Wallace Ford
- Tod Browning
- Horror
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.
Apr 5, 2024 · Lee Pfeiffer. Freaks, American horror film, released in 1932, a grotesque revenge melodrama in which director Tod Browning explored the world of carnival sideshows and the “freaks” that starred in them. The story centres on the machinations of a femme fatale, the “normal” trapeze artist Cleopatra (played by Olga.