Directed by:
Tod BrowningCinematography:
Merritt B. GerstadCast:
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Schlitze, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Josephine Joseph, Johnny Eck (more)VOD (2)
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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 their own code—one of radical acceptance for the fellow oppressed and, as the show’s beautiful but cruel trapeze artist learns, of terrifying retribution for those who cross them. Received with revulsion by viewers upon its initial release, Freaks effectively ended Browning’s career but can now be seen for what it is: an audacious cry for understanding and a singular experience of nightmarish, almost avant-garde power. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Wallace Ford
UK
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Freaks (1932)
The Rainmaker (1956)
Leila Hyams
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Spite Marriage (1929)
Olga Baclanova
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Roscoe Ates
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
City Girl (1930)
Freaks (1932)
Harry Earles
German Empire
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
The Unholy Three (1925)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Daisy Earles
German Empire
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Schlitze
Mexico
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Daisy Hilton
UK
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Violet Hilton
UK
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Josephine Joseph
Austria
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Johnny Eck
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Frances O´Connor
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Peter Robinson
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Olga Roderick
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Prince Randian
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Martha Morris
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Elvira Snow
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Jenny Lee Snow
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Elizabeth Green
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)