Freaks
Summary:
The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled -Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting -Spurs for the screen, writers Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Wolf, and Al Boasberg retained the circus setting and the little man-big woman wedding, all th... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Wallace Ford - (Phroso)
Leila Hyams - (Venus)
Olga Baclanova - (Cleopatra)
Roscoe Ates - (Roscoe)
Harry Earles - (Hans)
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Review:
If you regard audacity as a quality to be admired in filmmaking, it's hard not to be a bit in awe of Tod Browning, who with Freaks made one of the grimmest and most offensive films of its era -- and managed this feat at MGM, the most glamorous studio in Hollywood. A pre-Code tale of love, deceit, and revenge at a carnival midway, with a fr... Continue >>
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