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Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story, [6] Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes [7]) 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.
Beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra sets her sights on fellow circus performer Hans; but she is only interested in his inheritance and, with her lover Hercules--the circus' strongman--she plans to kill Hans for it.
Jul 9, 2019 · The film’s very plot involves unmasking a beautiful circus star – Cleopatra, the trapeze artist and ‘peacock of the air’ – as a greedy, repugnant character whose exterior attractiveness is ultimately destroyed at the end, when she is turned into a ‘human duck’ and becomes a sideshow spectacle herself.
Freaks: Directed by Tod Browning. With Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates. A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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- Drama, Horror
- Tod Browning
- 1932-02-20
Dec 20, 2023 · Set in the world of a traveling circus, the movie Freaks (1932) tells the story of a beautiful trapeze artist named Cleopatra who conspires to marry and murder a wealthy dwarf named Hans for his inheritance.
Received with revulsion by viewers upon its initial release, Freaks permanently damaged Browning’s career but can now be seen for what it is: an audacious cry for understanding and a singular experience of nightmarish, almost avant-garde power. Film Info. United States. 1932. 62 minutes. Black & White. 1.37:1. English. Cast. Wallace Ford. Phroso.
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Two German-language accented midgets, dressed in formal attire during the circus show, watched her from behind a curtain - they were the love-smitten, infatuated ringmaster Hans (Harry Earles) and his devoted fiancee-companion Frieda (Daisy Earles).
