The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces” as the armless Spanish knife thrower Alonzo (he flings daggers with his feet) whose dastardly infatuation with his beautiful assistant (Joan Crawford)—a woman, it just so happens, who cannot bear to be touched by the hands of any man—drives him to unspeakable extremes. Sadomasochistic obsession, deception, murder, disfigurement, and a spectacular Grand Guignol climax—Browning wrings every last frisson from the lurid premise.

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A fantastically atmospheric but rarely seen missing link in the development of Tod Browning’s artistry, set amid his favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic provides a striking showcase for silent-era diva Aileen Pringle, who sports a series of memorably outré looks (courtesy of art deco designer Erté) as Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man (Conway Tearle), crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie séance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes.

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Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist’s methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

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Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count’s next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who’s sent in to prevent her death. At the same time, secrets are revealed surrounding the circumstances of Sir Karell’s death.

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Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula (1931) & Freaks (1932)), this film features a host of character actors led by Robert Young as retired magician Mike Morgan, who now sells tricks to the other performers in his former trade (hence the film’s title). Frank Craven plays Young’s father, having just come to NYC to visit his son, and provides the film’s comic relief. Judy Barclay (Florence Rice) is being chased and comes to Morgan for help, whose assistance becomes the story, which plays out confusingly and frenetically during this picture’s 71 minutes. Henry Hull as Houdini-like Dave Duvallo and Lee Bowman (among others, some listed later) also appear in this Harry Ruskin, Marion Parsonnet, and James Edward Grant screenplay (based on Clayton Rawson’s novel).

The high points of this movie are the other “magicians” involved and the various tricks they (and Young’s character, Morgan) perform throughout the film. Morgan’s apartment is especially fun, with his father getting caught up inadvertently in many of them. At points throughout the movie, though, the viewer can become convinced that the showing of these tricks and/or the required special effects was the purpose for doing it in the first place. Some of these elaborate tricks must have blown the film’s budget because there are some real fake, if cleverly done, looking sets employed (e.g. a bookcase painted on the wall).

Shortly into the story, a magician is murdered such that Barclay and the other magicians, including Morgan, are all suspects. However, Morgan is allowed to help solve the mystery because he has apparently worked with the police to expose “fakes” (those in the trade that insist there really is an occult, that mind reading is possible, etc.) in the past. During the investigation, various magician’s “secrets” are revealed, some after temporarily fooling Morgan and the police into believing their authenticity. This part of the movie should be a delight for anyone who likes magic tricks, and wants to see how they are done (or could be done). Of course, Morgan solves the case.

Some of the more familiar character actors appearing in this film include Cliff Clark (in several of the Falcon Series films), appropriately playing a police inspector, William Demarest (Uncle Charlie from TV’s My Three Sons) playing his detective, and Eddie Acuff & Richard Loo (a popular Asian actor, also in The Falcon Strikes Back) appear uncredited.

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Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

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For 18 years Phroso, known as Dead Legs by his cronies, plots his revenge, becoming a pseudo-king in East Africa, nearby where Crane has set up an ivory business. When the daughter is grown, having lived in a brothel in Zanzibar thanks to Dead Legs, Phroso put his plan into action, resulting in revenge and retribution all around.

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