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Freaks

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Freaks
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NR,1hr 6min
Genres:
Drama,Horror,Action
Released:
February 20, 1932
Director:
Tod Browning
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova  ...more
Synopsis: 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 the while de-vilifying the midget and transforming the woman into the true "heavy" of the piece. German "little person" Harry Earles plays Hans, ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG 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 frank-for-its-day approach to sexual gamesmanship and violent ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Wallace Ford
Phroso
Leila Hyams
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Olga Baclanova
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Roscoe Ates
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