| Title |
Freaks / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents Tod Browning's production. |
| OCLC |
56091591 |
| ISBN |
0790746549 |
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9780790746548 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
012569519121 |
| Music number |
65191 Warner Home Video |
| Publisher |
[United States] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004] |
| Description |
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Circus performers -- Drama.
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Freak shows -- Drama.
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Sideshows -- Drama.
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People with disabilities -- Abuse of -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Revenge -- Drama.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| System details note |
DVD. |
| Cast |
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Rosco Ates. |
| Creation/Production credits |
Produced by Tod Browning, Irving Thalberg ; directed by Tod Browning ; screenplay by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon ; additional writing by Al Boasberg, Edgar Allan Woolf ; cinematography, Merritt B. Gerstad ; editing, Basil Wrangell. |
| Summary |
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers. |
| Target audience |
Not rated by MPAA. |
| Language note |
English language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired. |
| General note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1932. |
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"Suggested by Tod Robbins' story, 'Spurs.'" |
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Special features: commentary by David J. Skal, author of Dark carnival: the secret world of Tod Browning, Hollywood's master of the macabre; all-new documentary, Freaks: Sideshow Cinema; special message prologue added for theatrical reissue; 3 alternate endings. |
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