Lon Chaney
Professor Echo, the Ventriloquist
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The Unholy Three is a 1925 American silent crime melodrama film involving a trio of circus conmen, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The supporting cast features Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, and Harry Earles.
The Unholy Three is a 1930 American Pre-Code melodrama directed by Jack Conway and starring Lon Chaney. Its plot involves a crime spree. The film is a sound remake of the silent 1925 film of the same name, with both films based on the novel The Unholy Three, by Tod Robbins.
The Unholy Three: Directed by Tod Browning. With Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen. A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
With Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles. Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.
Watch The Unholy Three with a subscription on Prime Video. A side-show ventriloquist (Lon Chaney) forms an underground trio with a strongman and a midget.
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Synopsis. Ventriloquist Professor Echo tires of living off the small profits of petty theft and proposes to three of his fellow sideshow performers, Herman, who is known as the strong man, Hercules and Willie, a dwarf billed as Tweedledee, that they go far away, where they will never be found.
The Unholy Three (1925) was the film in which director Tod Browning truly discovered his voice as a filmmaker. His previous thrillers had flirted with the unusual, but The Unholy Three is a brisk plunge into the perverse. Its uncanny mixture of crime, suspense, carnival freaks and cross-dressers would lay the groundwork for the outre pleasures ...
