Tod Browning's sideshow shockers : Freaks ; The Unknown ; The Mystic /

Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hurley, Dean (Composer)
Other Authors:	Browning, Tod, 1880-1962 (Screenwriter), Goldbeck, Willis (Screenwriter), Gordon, Leon, 1884-1960 (Screenwriter), Young, Waldemar, 1878-1938 (Screenwriter), Ford, Wallace, 1898-1966 (Actor), Hyams, Leila, 1905-1977 (Actor), Baclanova, Olga, 1899-1974 (Actor), Ates, Roscoe, 1895-1962 (Actor), Victor, Henry, 1892-1945 (Actor), Earles, Harry (Actor), Earles, Daisy (Actor), Dione, Rose, 1875-1936 (Actor), Hilton, Daisy, 1908-1969 (Actor), Hilton, Violet, 1908-1969 (Actor), Schlitzie, 1901-1971 (Actor), Joseph, Josephine, 1891-1966 (Actor), Randian, Prince (Actor), Roderick, Olga (Actor), O'Connor, Frances 1914-1982 (Actor), Morris, Martha, 1902-1937 (Actor), Snow, Elvira (Actor), Snow, Jenny Lee (Actor), Rossitti, Angelo (Actor), Brophy, Edward, 1895-1960 (Actor), McHugh, Matt (Actor), Eck, Johnny (Actor), Robinson, Peter, 1874-1947 (Actor), Green, Elizabeth, 1905-2001 (Actor), Woolsey, Minnie (Actor), Conti, Albert, 1887-1967 (Actor), Visaroff, Michael, 1892-1951 (Actor), Kinnell, Murray, 1889-1954 (Actor), Atchley, Hooper, 1887-1943 (Actor), Austin, Jerry, 1892-1976 (Actor), Comont, Mathilde, 1886-1938 (Actor), Adams, Ernie, 1885-1947 (Actor), Edith (Actor) (Actor), Fritz, Delmo (Actor), Romanoff, C., 1897-1977 (Actor), Bracey, Sidney, 1877-1942 (Actor), Chaney, Lon, 1883-1930 (Actor), Kerry, Norman (Actor), Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977 (Actor), De Ruiz, Nick (Actor), George, John, 1898-1968 (Actor), Lanning, Frank, 1872-1945 (Actor), Sainpolis, J. F. (John F.), 1873-1946 (Actor), Rivero, Julian, 1890-1976 (Actor), Seay, Billy (Actor), Amandares, Tom (Actor), Emmons, Louise, 1858-1935 (Actor), Frandi, Italia (Actor), Frandi, Venezia (Actor), Moran, Polly, 1883-1952 (Actor), Bert, Margaret (Actor), Desmuke, Paul (Actor), Pringle, Aileen, 1895-1989 (Actor), Tearle, Conway, 1878-1938 (Actor), Lewis, Mitchell, 1880-1956 (Actor), Ober, Robert (Actor), Heck, Stanton, 1877-1929 (Actor), Torrence, David, 1864-1951 (Actor), Hulette, Gladys (Actor), Jennings, DeWitt, 1872-1937 (Actor), Daumery, Carrie, 1863-1938 (Actor), Hazelton, Joseph, 1853-1936 (Actor), Nehme, Farran Smith (writer of supplemental material.), Robbins, Tod, 1888-1949
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English; silent features have English intertitles.
Published:	[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, 2023.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 1194.
Subjects:	Sideshows > Drama. Abnormalities, Human > Drama. Outcasts > Drama. Criminals > Drama. Crime > Drama. Swindlers and swindling > Drama. Knife throwing > Drama. Fugitives from justice > Drama. Unrequited love > Drama. Seances > Drama. Heiresses > Drama. Horror films. Circus films. Crime films. Silent films. Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Description
Summary:	Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities. The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse. The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress out of her fortune by way of conducting fraudulent séances. The world is a carnival of criminality, corruption, and psychosexual strangeness in the twisted pre-Code shockers of Tod Browning. Early Hollywood's edgiest auteur, Browning drew on his experiences as a circus performer to create subversive pulp entertainments set amid the world of traveling sideshows, which, with their air of the exotic and the disreputable, provided a pungent backdrop for his sordid tales of outcasts, cons, villains, and vagabonds. Bringing together two of his defining works (The Unknown and Freaks) and a long-unavailable rarity (The Mystic), this cabinet of pre-Code curiosities reveals a master of the morbid whose ability to unsettle is matched only by his daring compassion for society's most downtrodden.
Item Description:	Originally released as three films in 1932, 1927, and 1925.
Physical Description:	2 Blu-ray videodiscs (203 min.) : sound and silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Audience:	MWT rating: NR.
Production Credits:	The mystic: composer, Dean Hurley.
ISBN:	9798886070644