Freaks (1932) - One of Us! Scene (6/9) | Movieclips

Freaks movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: When the Freaks accept Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) as one of their own, she rejects the invitation and sends them away. FILM DESCRIPTION: The genesis of MGM’s Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting Spurs for the screen, writers Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Wolf, and Al Boasberg retained the circus setting and the little man-big woman wedding, all the while de-vilifying the midget and transforming the woman into the true “heavy“ of the piece. German “little person“ Harry Earles plays Hans, who falls in love with long-legged trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova). Discovering that Hans is heir to a fortune, Cleopatra inveigles him into a marriage, all the while planning to bump off her new husband and run away with brutish strongman Hercules (Henry Victor). What she doesn’t reckon with is the code of honor among circus freaks: “offend one, offend them all.“ What set this film apart from director Tod Browning’s earlier efforts was the fact that genuine circus and carnival sideshow performers were cast as the freaks: Harry Earles and his equally diminutive sister Daisy, Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, legless Johnny Eck, armless-legless Randian (who rolls cigarettes with his teeth), androgynous Josephine-Joseph, “pinheads“ Schlitzie, Elvira, Jennie Lee Snow, and so on. Upon its initial release, Freaks was greeted with such revulsion from movie-house audiences that MGM spent the next 30 years distancing themselves as far from the project as possible. For many years available only in a truncated reissue version titled Nature’s Mistakes, Freaks was eventually restored to its original release print. CREDITS: TM & © Warner Bros. (1932) Cast: Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Johnny Eck, Delmo Fritz, Peter Robinson, Angelo Rossitto, Henry Victor, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Josephine Joseph, Koo Koo, Olga Roderick Director: Tod Browning Producers: Tod Browning, Dwain Esper, Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg, Hildegarde Stadie Screenwriters: Al Boasberg, Leon Gordon, Willis Goldbeck, Charles MacArthur, Clarence Aaron ’Tod’ Robbins, Edgar Allan Woolf WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: MOVIECLIPS: ComingSoon: Indie & Film Festivals: Hero Central: Extras: Classic Trailers: Pop-Up Trailers: Movie News: Movie Games: Fandango: Fandango FrontRunners: HIT US UP: Facebook: Twitter: Pinterest: Tumblr: