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Freaks
Title
Freaks / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Tod Browning production ; producer, Irving Thalberg ; screenplay by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon ; directed by Tod Browning.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Publication
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from disc label.
Based on the short story "Spurs" by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Special features: audio commentary; new interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning; archival documentary on Freaks; episode from 2019 of critic Kristen Lopez's podcast Ticklish business about disability representation in Freaks; Reading by Skal of "Spurs", the short story by Tod Robbins on which Freaks is based; Prologue to Freaks, which was added to the film in 1947; program on the alternate endings to Freaks; video gallery of portraits from Freaks.
Photography, Merritt B. Gerstad ; film editor, Basil Wrangell.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Summary
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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 02, 2023
Credits
Photography, Merritt B. Gerstad ; film editor, Basil Wrangell.
Cast
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Videorecording number
CC3492BD-1 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Horror films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter.
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