Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Nov 10, 2024 4:15pm
Details
The Silent Cinema Showcase returns with another selection of newly restored screen classics and rare gems from the silent era.
Special Features: Silent with live musical accompaniment by the Andrew Simpson Ensemble
Lon Chaney starred in several films for Tod Browning (DRACULA, FREAKS), none better than this one. Chaney plays Alonzo the Armless, a double-amputee circus sideshow performer famed for his fancy footwork flinging knives. A young Joan Crawford plays Nanon, a fellow circus performer with an intense fear of being touched. It would seem the two are made for each other — but Alonzo is keeping a terrible secret. DIR/SCR Tod Browning; SCR Waldemar Young. U.S., 1927, b&w, 75 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
