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Freaks /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 65191 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Spoken language: English Original language: English Subtitle language: French, English, Spanish Producer: [Los Angeles, CA] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1932Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [2004]Distributor: [United States] : Turner Entertainment Co., [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0790746549
  • 9780790746548
Other title:
  • Title on container: Tod Browning's amazing production of Freaks
Uniform titles:
  • Freaks (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture screenplay based on (work): Robbins, Tod, 1888-1949. Spurs
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .F7385 2004
NLM classification:
  • FE FA 1932 F743
Online resources:
Partial contents:
Special features: Special message prologue; Commentary by author David J. Skal; "Freaks: the sideshow cinema" documentary; 3 alternate endings.
Production credits:
  • Produced by Tod Browning, Irving Thalberg ; directed by Tod Browning ; screenplay by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon ; additional writing by Al Boasberg, Edgar Allan Woolf ; cinematography, Merritt B. Gerstad ; editing, Basil Wrangell.
Awards:
  • Named to the National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress.
Cast: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Rosco Ates, Henry Victor, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Rose Dione, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Schlitze, Josephine Joseph, Johnny Eck, Frances O'Connor, Peter Robinson, Olga Roderick, Rardion, Martha Morris, Elizabeth Green, Angelo Rossitto, Edward Brophy, Mat McHugh.Summary: A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02293 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050184674

Suggested by Tod Robbins' story, 'Spurs.'"

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.

Special features: Special message prologue; Commentary by author David J. Skal; "Freaks: the sideshow cinema" documentary; 3 alternate endings.

Not rated by MPAA.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono ; dual-layer disc.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

Named to the National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress.

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