The Unknown

The Unknown

1927 | 49m | Drama, Horror | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

Lon Chaney masquerades as an armless circus performer who takes his obsession with lovely co-star Joan Crawford to a new level of twisted in this 1927 silent classic.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Tod Browning

CAST

Lon Chaney

Norman Kerry

Joan Crawford

Nick De Ruiz

John George

Frank Lanning

PRODUCERS

Irving Thalberg

WRITERS

Tod Browning

Waldemar Young

Host Intros

02:13
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Unknown (1927)
Intro Aired: Oct 2018
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Unknown, 1927.

Related Videos

03:41
Unknown, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Always Hate Them
Clip
Director Tod Browning's opening, in "Old Madrid" introducing Zanzi (Nick De Ruiz) at his gypsy circus, his star Alonzo (Lon Chaney), eye-candy Nanon (Joan Crawford) and strong-man Malabar (Norman Kerry), in MGM's The Unknown, 1927.
03:41
Unknown, The (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Gypsy Souls
Clip
Following the murder of the circus owner, his daughter Nanon (Joan Crawford), with lustful and not-actually-armless Alonzo (Lon Chaney), who is the killer, makes new plans, hunky weightlifter Malabar (Norman Kerry) paying a last visit, in Tod Browning's The Unknown, 1927.
Address Unknown (1944) -- (Movie Clip) That Little Man
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Jewish actress Griselle (K.T. Stevens) and her director (Erwin Kaiser) get a visit from a Nazi censor (Charles Halton) during rehearsals for their pre-war Berlin stage production in Address Unknown, 1944.

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