Tod Browning's jaw-droppingly macabre drama starring box office sensation Lon Chaney and superstar-in-the-making Joan Crawford.

Chaney demonstrates his unparalleled flair for gruesome on-screen physical transformation with his performance as Alonzo the Armless - a knife-thrower in a travelling circus, madly in love with glamorous assistant Nanon. Alonzo hides secrets. Not only is he a murderer but he is not actually 'armless' - choosing to conceal his limbs to evade identification by the police and to win the trust of Nanon who has a phobia of men's hands.

This film was the sixth of ten collaborations between Chaney and Browning, a director most famous today for the Bela Lugosi Dracula and the notorious Freaks. A love-triangle like no other and probably one of the most bizarre and dramatically grotesque films you will ever see. Guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. You have been warned!

Dir. Tod Browning | USA | 1927 | N/C recommended 16+ |1h 3m
With: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, and Joan Crawford

Performing live: Jonny Best (piano)

BSL - English supported event

Screening courtesy of Park Circus / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Photo Credits: The Unknown 1927 WBEI