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Freaks
Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, 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, and Roscoe Ates.
Plot
A beautiful and conniving trapeze artist named Cleopatra seduces a carnival sideshow dwarf named Hans after learning of his large inheritance. This is much to the chagrin of Frieda, his fiancée, also a dwarf. Cleopatra also conspires with circus strongman Hercules to kill Hans so she will inherit his wealth. Meanwhile, other romances flourish among the sideshow performers: the Bearded Lady, who is in love with the Human Skeleton, gives birth to their daughter. The news is spread among the friends by the Stork Woman. Additionally, Violet, a conjoined twin whose sister Daisy is married to Roscoe, the stuttering circus clown, becomes engaged to the circus's owner.
Cast
- Albert Conti
- Angelo Rossitto
- Daisy and Violet Hilton
- Daisy Earles
- Daisy Hilton
- Edward Brophy
- Frances O'Connor
- Harry Earles
- Henry Victor
- Johnny Eck
- Josephine Joseph
- Koo-Koo the Bird Girl
- Leila Hyams
- Louise Beavers
- Mathilde Comont
- Michael Visaroff
- Olga Baclanova
- Peter Robinson
- Prince Randian
- Roscoe Ates
- Rose Dione
- Schlitzie
- Sidney Bracey
- The Doll Family
- Violet Hilton
- Wallace Ford
More details
| author | Al Boasberg Charles MacArthur Edgar Allan Woolf Leon Gordon Tod Robbins Willis Goldbeck |
|---|---|
| director | Tod Browning |
| editor | Basil Wrangell |
| genre | drama horror |
| keywords | bearded lady carnival castrato circus clown conjoined twin conjoined twins elizabeth green the stork woman engage heartwarming human skeleton injured kill learn married poison sea lion sideshow sideshow performers stork woman stutter trapeze trapeze artist traveling carnival want wed |
| producer | Harry Rapf Irving Thalberg Tod Browning |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |