Freaks
Story about Circus 'freaks'. Adapted from the short story 'Spurs' by Tod Robbins published in the February 1923 issue of Munsey's Magazine.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Phroso Wallace Ford
- Venus Leila Hyams
- Cleopatra Olga Baclanova
- Roscoe Roscoe Ates
- Hercules Henry Victor
- Hans Harry Earles
- Frieda Daisy Earles
- Madame Tetrallini Rose Dione
- Siamese twin Daisy Hilton
- Siamese twin Violet Hilton
- Schlitze Schlitze
- half woman half man Josephine Joseph
- half boy Johnny Eck
- armless girl Frances O'connor
- human skeleton Peter Robinson
- bearded lady Olga Roderick
- Koo Koo Koo Koo
- living torso Randion
- armless woman Martha Morris
- pinheads Zip and Pip
- bird girl Elizabeth Green
- Angeleno Angelo Rossitto
- Rollo brother Edward Brophy
- Rollo brother Matt Mchugh
- [Jean, the caretaker] Michael Visaroff
- [Dubois, the landowner] Albert Conti
- [maid] Louise Beavers
- [sideshow patron] Ernie Adams
Credits
Direction
- Director Tod Browning
Production
- ©/Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Producer Tod Browning
Writing
- [Screenplay] Willis Goldbeck
- [Screenplay] Leon Gordon
- [Additional Dialogue] Edgar Allan Woolf
- [Additional Dialogue] Al Boasberg
- Suggested by the short story 'Spurs' by Clarence Aaron Robbins
Photography
- [Photography] Merritt B. Gerstad
Editing
- [Film Editor] Basil Wrangell
Design
- [Art Director] Cedric Gibbons
Sound
- [Recording Engineer] Gavin Burns
- Sound System Western Electric