Freaks (2004, DVD) Wallace Ford - 1932
Description:
"Gooble, gobble... we accept her... one of us," goes the haunting chant
of FREAKS. Yet it would be decades before this widely banned morality
play gained acceptance as a cult masterpiece.
Tod Browning (1931's DRACULA) directs this landmark movie in which the true freaks are not the story's sideshow performers, but "normals" who mock and abuse them. Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real-life sideshow professionals. A living torso who nimbly lights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls "pinheads") - they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans. In 1994, FREAKS was selected for the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.
Tod Browning (1931's DRACULA) directs this landmark movie in which the true freaks are not the story's sideshow performers, but "normals" who mock and abuse them. Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast real-life sideshow professionals. A living torso who nimbly lights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls "pinheads") - they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans. In 1994, FREAKS was selected for the National Film Registry's archive of cinematic treasures.
Actor/Actress: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Rose Dione, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton
Director: Tod Browning
Year: 1932
Runtime: 62
Rating: NR
Language: English
Color: BW
Closed Captioned: Y
UPC: 012569519121
Screen Ratio:
Discs: 1
Features: Y
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