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Freaks

Freaks (1932) more movies like this

directed by Tod Browning
featuring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Henry Victor

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 ...

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The Big House

The Big House (1930) more movies like this

directed by George W. Hill
featuring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone

Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery), driving drunk, kills a couple of pedestrians and is sentenced to a 10-year manslaughter term. His cellmate is forger Morgan (Chester Morris), a tough but essentially decent con; the cell-block leader is Butch (Wallace Beery), ...

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Red Headed Woman

Red Headed Woman (1932) more movies like this

directed by Jack Conway
featuring Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel

Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost ruined his own marriage. In a way he had a point , but only Jean Harlow could have made gold digger Lil Andrews a sympathetic protagonist. And Katherine Brush's racy novel (which first appeared, serial-fashion, in the ...

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Sins of the Children

Sins of the Children (1930) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Clara Blandick

This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal when he is forced to move to the desert to help his tubercular son recover. It takes two years, and during that time, the businessman's partner has written him off as a business failure. That may be true, but in other areas of ...

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Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage (1929) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, William Bechtel

In his last silent film, Buster Keaton plays a pants-presser who pines for aloof stage actress Dorothy Sebastian. When she is jilted by her fiance Edward Earle, Sebastian spitefully marries Keaton. He is ecstatic (or as ecstatic as the poker-faced comedian ever gets) until he finds out why Sebastian has said "I do." Disconsolately, Keaton takes a ...

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