Freaks
1932
Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?
Directed by Tod Browning
User Rating
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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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- Director
- Tod Browning
- Written by
- Leon Gordon, Willis Goldbeck, Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
- Produced by
- Irving Thalberg, Tod Browning
- Cinematographer
- Merritt B. Gerstad
- Editor
- Basil Wrangell
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Language
- English
- Rating
- NR
- Also known as
- Forbidden Love, Nature's Mistakes, The Freaks
- TMDB
- 7.8/10 (1,332 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 95% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 80/100
- IMDb
- 7.8/10 (54,394 votes)
Cast
Harry Earles
Hans
Olga Baclanova
Cleopatra
Daisy Earles
Frieda
Henry Victor
Hercules
Wallace Ford
Phroso
Leila Hyams
Venus
Roscoe Ates
Roscoe
Angelo Rossitto
Angeleno
Jerry Austin
Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited)
Daisy Hilton
Siamese Twin
Violet Hilton
Siamese Twin
Schlitzie
Himself
Josephine Joseph
Half Woman-Half Man
Johnny Eck
Half Boy
Frances O'Connor
Armless Girl
Peter Robinson
Human Skeleton
Olga Roderick
Bearded Lady
Koo Koo
Herself
Crew
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Trailer
Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — Mind & Body Pt 3: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) & Freaks (1932)
Appears in
BFI: The Ultimate Horror Watchlist
Mind & Body - The Evolution of Horror Podcast
Rolling Stone: 101 Best Horror Movies of All Time
Slant Magazine: 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time
Time Out: 100 Best Horror Films
Transgressive Horror
Variety: 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time
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