The Unknown

Unclassified 18+
Tod Browning, 49 mins, USA, 1927, B&W. Courtesy: NFSA.

The Unknown
The Unknown
The best and most disturbingly surreal of the 10 often-bizarre films which Browning and Lon Chaney made together.

Chaney plays a strangler masquerading as 'Alonzo the Armless Wonder', who finds himself competing for the affections of a pretty equestrienne (Joan Crawford) who cannot bear to be touched by men. Unsurprisingly, macabre complications arise.

The berserk finale is L'amour fou mixed with Grand Guignol.

Dates   Wed 23 Jun 2010, 9.30pm
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