Freaks (1932)




Tod Browning - Freaks

Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles - Freaks

 Prince Randian - Freaks


Freaks

Olga Baclanova, Tod Browning - Freaks




A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , March 1932
Photoplay , May 1932

Books with substantial mentioning of Freaks

John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.)
Fifty Key American Films
London and New York, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Dawn B. Sova
Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures
New York NY, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Welch Everman
Cult Horror Films, From "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" to "Zombies of Mora Tau"
Secaucus, N.J., 1993

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

William K. Everson
Klassiker des Horrorfilms
München, 1982

William K. Everson
Classics of the Horror Film, From the days of the Silent Screen to The Exorcist
Secaucus, NJ, 1974

Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt
Cinema of the Fantastic
New York, 1972

Articles on Freaks

Bernd Herzogenrath, The Monstrous Body/Politic of Freaks, in: Bernd Herzogenrath (ed), The Films of Tod Browning, London, 2006

Reviews

Kim Newman, Freaks, in: Empire, nr. 161, 2002 pp. 50