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01/01/1932 Drama, Horror 1h 4m
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Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?

Overview

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

  1. Tod Browning

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Harry Earles

    Hans

  2. Olga Baclanova

    Cleopatra

  3. Daisy Earles

    Frieda

  4. Henry Victor

    Hercules

  5. Wallace Ford

    Phroso

  6. Leila Hyams

    Venus

  7. Roscoe Ates

    Roscoe

  8. Angelo Rossitto

    Angeleno

  9. Jerry Austin

    Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2014-04-26
This is for the misfits the freaks and the runts.

Tod Browning's Freaks is as infamous today as it was back in the 30s when it shook film watchers to the core. Of course time has diluted some of its impact, you can imagine that a modern day horror fan drooling over torture porn et al being completely bemused by the reputation afforded Freaks. Yet it still remains a unique and nightmarish piece of film making, the sort of picture that if someone like David Lynch had made it in the modern era it would be heralded as a masterpiece of daring and genius like artistry.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$310,607.00

Revenue
$0.00

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