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The Unknown
Directed by
Tod Browning
1927
68m
Not Rated
Drama
,
Horror
,
Romance
,
and more
7.7
100%
88%
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A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
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Cast of The Unknown
Lon Chaney
Alonzo
Norman Kerry
Malabar
Joan Crawford
Nanon
Nick De Ruiz
Zanzi
John George
Cojo
Frank Lanning
Costra
Tom Amandares
Gypsy Running to Zanzi's Death Scene (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
Fortune Teller (uncredited)
Louise Emmons
Gypsy Woman (uncredited)
Italia Frandi
Girl in Audience Flirting with Malabar (uncredited)
Venezia Frandi
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Polly Moran
Landlady / Servant in Audience (uncredited)
Julian Rivero
Man in Theatre Audience (uncredited)
Billy Seay
The Little Wolf (uncredited)
Dorothy Seay
Spectator (uncredited)
John St. Polis
Surgeon (uncredited)
The Unknown Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It was the last of the great silent films, as just 4 months later the first talkie opened: The Jazz Singer.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
It may not be Browning's best silent film, but it is certainly his most fascinatingly perverse -- and that's saying something in the world of Tod Browning.
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Not a second of its brief 50-minute running time is wasted.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
The unknown is a real moving picture... It is Tod Browning, with his fine sense of pictorial values, who makes it so.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Tod Browning's rousing, cruel joke on the mutilated artiste and the frigid muse
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
[An] astonishing masterpiece.
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
[The Unknown] is scarcely a film which children should see, but to the average mystery lover it is gripping and extremely well acted.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
With its undercurrents of frigidity and castration anxiety, the story was excellent material for Browning, and the film races along with the awful momentum of a bad dream.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Freakish and fascinating.
Elements of Madness
Douglas Davidson
Each one, by nature of the period in which they were released and how audiences responded to them, have a legacy that must be explored, mulled over, and come to terms with if cinema is going to tell honest stories without exploitation.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
Browning and Chaney were allowed to pursue the dark corners of this twisted melodrama without restraint, resulting in one of the silent cinema's great precursors to the horror genre
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