... you can learn from:
The Unknown (1927)
Nanon: Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them!Men! The beasts! God would show wisdomif he took the hands from all of them!
A red letter day at Criterion HQ today as their box-set of three Tod Browning horror movies is hitting the shelves -- click here to snap up your copy, which includes the above film along with Browning's 1932 masterpiece Freaks along with his 1925 silent The Mystic, which I have never seen! I have this set at home though and I'm saving that one for closer to Halloween-time. I have seen The Unknown though -- it stars Joan Crawford so of course I have -- and it's terrific. Maybe not Freaks terrific, but what is?
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Isn't this version of THE UNKNOWN longer than the one we know?
That's what they say, yup
Have to wait for the next 50% off sale to buy the set. I think B&N usually does a 50% off sale in November. I did buy EO though. It should be here today.
The Unknown is one of the few silent films I've watched more than once. Joan of course is a big part of that, she herself said it was the working experience particularly her time with Chaney that led to her becoming more serious about her career and striving to do better work, but the film is a fascinating, strange thing. Chaney as expected is brilliant.
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