Freaks

Freaks (1932)

12
27/09/2002 (GB)
Drama, Horror
1h 6m

Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?

Overview

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.

  • Tod BrowningDirector
  • Willis GoldbeckScreenplay
  • Leon GordonScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $310,607

Keywords

  • infidelity
  • dwarf
  • attempted murder
  • clown
  • beauty
  • carnival
  • romance
  • revenge
  • murder
  • black and white
  • newlywed
  • pre-code
  • bigotry
  • disability
  • sideshow
  • told in flashback
  • speech impediment
  • trapeze artist
  • stutterer
  • deformity
  • conjoined twins
  • freak
  • armless
  • midgets
  • midget
  • bareback rider
  • poisoned drink
  • pseudo-hermaphrodite
  • bearded lady
  • microcephalics
  • human skeleton

Top Billed Cast

Harry Earles

Harry Earles

Hans

Olga Baclanova

Olga Baclanova

Cleopatra

Daisy Earles

Daisy Earles

Frieda

Henry Victor

Hercules

Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Phroso

Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams

Venus

Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

Roscoe

Angelo Rossitto

Angelo Rossitto

Angeleno

Jerry Austin

Jerry Austin

Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited)

Daisy Hilton

Daisy Hilton

Siamese Twin

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