The Unknown (1927)


The Unknown
8.1 Listal rating
7.8 IMDB rating
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Starring (View all)
Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

Alonzo
Norman Kerry

Norman Kerry

Malabar
Nick De Ruiz

Nick De Ruiz

Zanzi
Frank Lanning

Frank Lanning

Costra
Louise Emmons

Louise Emmons

Gypsy Woman
Italia Frandi

Italia Frandi

Girl in Audience Flirting with Malabar


Written by (View all)
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart

(novel K) uncredited
Tod Browning

Tod Browning

(story)


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Release date : 4 June 1927
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"15.7.12. DVD / leffailta Lyhyessä Tod Browningin elokuvassa on tiivistetty perinteisen Lon Chaney -tarinan muoto hyvin lyhyeen ja toimivaan tilaan. Kyseessä on Chaneyn ilmeisesti tunnetuin työ eikä sinänsä ihme. Filmissä Alonzo -niminen kädetön veitsenheittäjä työskentelee sirkuksessa ja on rakastunut nuoreen työpariinsa. Pari pelkää miesten kosketusta eikä siksi ole taipuvainen toisen häntä rakastavan miehen, sirkuksen koskettamisesta pitävän voimamiehen lähentelyihin. S"


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"15.7. Lon Chaney esittää itselleen tyypillistä hahmoa jälleen kerran aivan erinomaisesti ja 50 minuuttia menee kivasti. Suuria tunteita ja epätoivoisia tekoja on paljon."


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"Tod Browning's 'The Unknown' is less well known that his subsequent landmark Horror films 'Dracula' and Freaks' but it is at once more lurid, disturbing and utterly brilliant than both. The story of a fugitive murderer posing as an armless knife thrower in a circus, 'The Unknown' focuses exclusively on the grisly and unpleasant, tossing in a hefty dose of 'Twilight Zone' style irony for good measure. 'The Unknown' could easily have descended into camp but instead it manages to be deliciously s"



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