Freaks [DVD] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Tod Browning production ; producer, Irving Thalberg ; screenplay by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon ; directed by Tod Browning.
Format:
[DVD] /
Edition:
DVD edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from disc label. Based on the short story "Spurs" by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins. Originally released as a motion picture in 1932. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: archival documentary on Freaks; Episode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez's podcat Ticklish business about disability representation in Freaks; Reading by Skal of "Spurs" the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based; Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947; program on the alternate endings to Freaks; video gallery of portraits from Freaks. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles.
Summary:
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.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1399539147
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
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