Tod Browning Double Feature: FREAKS (1932) + THE UNKNOWN (1927) with The Oddities Museum

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Overview

Join us at the Plaza Theatre for Todd Browning's classic sideshow spectacles with a gallery pop-up by The Oddities Museum!

FREAKS (1932) | Dir. Tod Browning | 64min.

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.

THE UNKNOWN (1927) | Dir. Tod Browning | 68min.

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster’s daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo’s desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

Director

Tod Browning

Producer

Tod Browning, Irving Thalberg

Cast

Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford