Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 64 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- infidelity
- dwarf
- attempted murder
- clown
- beauty
- carnival
- romance
- revenge
- murder
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Wallace Ford — Phroso
- Leila Hyams — Venus
- Roscoe Ates — Roscoe
- Angelo Rossitto — Angeleno
- Jerry Austin — Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited)
- Daisy Hilton — Siamese Twin
- Violet Hilton — Siamese Twin
- Schlitzie — Himself
- Josephine Joseph — Half Woman-Half Man
- Johnny Eck — Half Boy
- Frances O'Connor — Armless Girl
- Directed
- Tod Browning
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,315 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
