The Unknown
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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Cast
- Lon Chaney
- Alonzo the Armless
- Norman Kerry
- Malabar the Mighty
- Joan Crawford
- Nanon
- Nick De Ruiz
- Zanzi
- John George
- Cojo
- Frank Lanning
- Costra
- John St. Polis
- Surgeon
- Julian Rivero
- Man in theater audience
- Billy Seay
- The Little Wolf
- Tom Amandares
- “Gypsy”
- Louise Emmons
- “Gypsy” woman
- Italia Frandi
- Girl in audience
- Venezia Frandi
- Woman in audience
- Polly Moran
- Lady’s maid in audience
- Margaret Bert
- Fortune teller
- Paul Desmuke
- Lon Chaney’s leg double
Credits
- Director
- Tod Browning
- Story by
- Tod Browning
- Scenario by
- Waldemar Young
- Titles by
- Joe Farnham
- Settings by
- Cedric Gibbons
- Settings by
- Richard Day
- Wardrobe by
- Lucia Coulter
- Photographed by
- Merritt B. Gerstad
- Film editor
- Harry Reynolds
- Film editor
- Errol Taggart
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A scene from The Unknown
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