What is Freaks / The Devil Doll about?

FREAKS, 1932, MGM Repertory, 64 min, Melodrama/Horror/Docufiction, USA. Dir. Tod Browning. Trapeze artist Cleopatra and strongman Hercules plot to kill the sideshow midget and gain his inheritance. With never-again duplicated eerie performances by real-life siblings Daisy and Harry Earles as Hans and Frieda. Drawing from past experience working for the circus, DRACULA director Tod Browning cast actual people with disabilities and deformities instead of using special effects and makeup, something unthinkable for the time. THE DEVIL-DOLL, 1936, MGM Repertory, 78 min, Horror/Crime, USA. Director Tod Browning and star Lionel Barrymore reunite for a bizarre tale of a prison escapee who shrinks humans to doll-size in order to execute a crime spree.

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What is Freaks / The Devil Doll about?: FREAKS, 1932, MGM Repertory, 64 min, Melodrama/Horror/Docufiction, USA. Dir. Tod Browning. Trapeze artist Cleopatra and strongman Hercules plot to kill the sideshow midget and gain his inheritance. With never-again duplicated eerie performances by real-life siblings Daisy and Harry Earles as Hans and Frieda. Drawing from past experience working for the circus, DRACULA director Tod Browning cast actual people with disabilities and deformities instead of using special effects and makeup, something unthinkable for the time.
THE DEVIL-DOLL, 1936, MGM Repertory, 78 min, Horror/Crime, USA. Director Tod Browning and star Lionel Barrymore reunite for a bizarre tale of a prison escapee who shrinks humans to doll-size in order to execute a crime spree.