Freaks(Movie, 1932)

Name: Freaks
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: 1932
Duration: T01:2:00
Rating: 3.9

| 1h 2min | Genres: Drama, Horror

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 503 votes)

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, Roscoe Ates and Harry Earles. Freaks, originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, is set amongst the backdrop of a travelling French circus and follows a conniving trapeze artist who joins a group of carnival sideshow performers with a plan to seduce and murder a dwarf in the troupe to gain his inheritance. However, her plot proves to have dangerous consequences. The film is based on elements from the short story "Spurs" by Tod Robbins, first published in Munsey's Magazine in February 1923, with the rights being purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Ced... ()

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About Freaks

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.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Based on the work of: Tod Robbins ("Spurs")

Made by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/12/1932

Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Rose Dione, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Prince Randian, Schlitzie, Josephine Joseph, Johnny Eck, Henry Victor, Daisy Earles, Frances O'Connor, Angelo Rossitto, Albert Conti, Edward Brophy, Mathilde Comont, Michael Visaroff, Koo-Koo the Bird Girl, Peter Robinson, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Louise Beavers, Sidney Bracey, The Doll Family

Director: Tod Browning

Producer: Tod Browning, Harry Rapf, Dwain Esper, Irving Thalberg

Screenwriter: Tod Robbins, Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Edgar Allan Woolf, Charles MacArthur, Leon Gordon

Film Editor: Basil Wrangell

Director of Photography: Merritt B. Gerstad

Scenographer: Cedric Gibbons

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La Monstrueuse Parade"

"Fenómenos"

"Изроди"

"L'amour chez les monstres"

"Zrudy"

"Freaks - Missgestaltete"

"Freaks (La parada de los monstruos)"

"La parada de los monstruos"

"Freaks - kummajaiset"

"Sirkussällskapet"

"Sirkusseurue"

"Barnum"

"Freaks - La monstrueuse parade"

"La Parade des monstres"

"Monstres"

"Τα Τέρατα"

"Szörnyszülöttek"

"Ajibolkhelgheha"

"怪物団フリークス"

"Fenómenos"

"Dziwolągi"

"A Parada dos Monstros"

"Nakaze"

"Уродцы"

"怪胎"

"Потвори"

"Forbidden Love"

"Nature's Mistakes"

"The Freaks"

"The Monster Show"

"Fenómenos"

Keywords: infidelity, freak, disability, clown, murder, pre-code, legless man, bigotry, stutterer, told in flashback, bareback rider, dwarf, attempted murder, beauty, revenge, trapeze artist, human skeleton, newlywed

Budget: 310,607 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Freaks(Movie, 1932)

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