Saturday, 30 May 2015

The Unknown (1927)


☆ ☆ ☆ 


The Unknown (1927) – T. Browning

AKA Alonzo the Armless. Lon Chaney is a circus performer who shoots bullets and throws knives (at 22 year old Joan Crawford) with his feet. He romances lovely Joan who has a pathological fear of being touched -- perfect! But Alonzo really does have arms that he's hiding away because he is a wanted murderer who has three thumbs. Thinking Joan would reject him if she found out he really had arms, Alonzo does the unthinkable. And when she falls in love with the strong man, he thinks up an ugly plot. An amazing silent spectacle of dread.



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