Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror
Release Year: 1932
Country: USA
Runtime: 64
Rating: 5.4 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Tod Browning
Sound: Mono
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Can a full grown woman truly love a MIDGET ?

"Well Make Her One of Us!" from the gibbering mouths of these weird creatures came this frenzied cry... no wonder she cringed in horror... this beautiful woman who dared toy with the love of one of them!

The Strangest... The Most Startling Human Story Ever Screened... Are You Afraid To Believe What Your Eyes See?

The Love Story of a SIREN, a GIANT, and a DWARF!

Writing by: Clarence Aaron Tod Robbins - (story "Spurs") (as Tod Robbins)
Al Boasberg - uncredited
Willis Goldbeck - uncredited
Leon Gordon - uncredited
Charles MacArthur - uncredited
Edgar Allan Woolf - uncredited

Produced by: Tod Browning - producer
Dwain Esper - producer (reissue) (uncredited)
Harry Rapf - producer (uncredited)
Hildegarde Stadie - producer (reissue) (uncredited)
Irving Thalberg - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Wallace Ford - Phroso
Leila Hyams - Venus
Olga Baclanova - Cleopatra
Roscoe Ates - Roscoe (as Rosco Ates)
Henry Victor - Hercules
Harry Earles - Hans
Daisy Earles - Frieda
Rose Dione - Madame Tetrallini
Daisy Hilton - Siamese Twin
Violet Hilton - Siamese Twin
Schlitze - Himself

Music: Nicholas Dodd
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. Frieda, Hans fianc?e (also a midget), warns Hans that Cleopatra is only interested in him so that he will give her money. Cleopatra has an affair with Hercules, and when Frieda lets it slip that Hans is to come into an inheritance, Cleopatra and Hercules plan to get the money be having Cleopatra marry Hans. During the wedding reception, Cleopatra, although openly romantic with Hercules, is accepted by the freaks, but is revolted and mocks them. The freaks decide that they no longer need Hercules in their carnival and have a new career for Cleopatra all lined up, and make sure she doesnt "chicken" out.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Special Thanks: Remus Yazoo

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene in which Hans friends menace Cleopatra in the wagon, the flute soundtrack doesnt match the finger movements of the dwarf playing the flute.

Trivia: There are 33 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The electrical equipment on the set was so badly grounded that crew members were frequently shocked.
• The films original ending showed Hercules singing soprano in Madame Tetralinis new sideshow due to the fact that he has been castrated by the freaks, but due to intense reactions of disgust on the part of test audiences this scene was cut.
• Prince Randian, the man with no arms or legs, developed a habit of lurking in dark corners and frightening passers-by with a blood-curdling yell.

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