Freaks

Titolo originale: Freaks
Regia: Tod Browning |
Anno: 1932
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Horror
Tag: infidelity | dwarf | attempted murder | clown | beauty | carnival | romance | revenge | murder | black and white | newlywed | pre-code | bigotry | disability | sideshow | told in flashback | speech impediment | trapeze artist | stutterer | deformity | conjoined twins | freak | armless | midgets | midget | bareback rider | poisoned drink | pseudo-hermaphrodite | bearded lady | microcephalics | human skeleton |
Cast: Harry Earles | Olga Baclanova | Daisy Earles | Henry Victor | Wallace Ford | Leila Hyams | Roscoe Ates | Angelo Rossitto | Jerry Austin | Daisy Hilton | Violet Hilton | Schlitzie | Josephine Joseph | Johnny Eck | Frances O'Connor | Peter Robinson | Olga Roderick | Koo Koo | Prince Randian | Martha Morris | Elvira Snow | Jenny Lee Snow | Elizabeth Green | Edward Brophy | Matt McHugh | Rose Dione | John Aasen | Ernie Adams | Demetrius Alexis | Hooper Atchley | Sidney Bracey | Mathilde Comont | Albert Conti | Tiny Doll | Edith | Delmo Fritz | Murray Kinnell | Constantine Romanoff | Michael Visaroff |

Tra gli artisti di un circo che ha tra le sue attrazioni esseri bizzarri e deformi, nascono relazioni amorose. Il nano Hans è innamorato della bella Cleopatra, una donna "normale" e avvenente, che lavora nel medesimo circo come trapezista. In realtà, la trapezista è interessata solo al denaro di Hans e progetta con il suo amante, il forzuto del circo, Ercole, di ucciderlo per godersene l'eredità.

Frasi

Hans: Give me that little black bottle. D
Hercules: [telling Venus off, as she walks out the [...] D
Phroso: [talking to Venus, who is all upset becaus [...] D
Frieda: Why is it, we women always have stuff to w [...] D
Madame Tetrallini: When I get the chance, I like t [...] D
[referring to a "half-man/half-woman" who has give [...] D
Cleopatra: You must come to see me sometime. And w [...] D
Cleopatra: You dirty, slimy, freaks! Freaks, freak [...] D
Cleopatra: OOH! HOLY JUMPING CHRISTMAS! D
Roscoe: [whenever he asks only one of the two Siam [...] D
Man bringing Frieda's Horse: [brings her a midget [...] D
Venus: [referring to Cleopatra] She's still after [...] D
Cleopatra: Can't you see it was only a joke? Hans [...] D
Carnival Barker: And now folks, if you will just s [...] D
Venus: [she has just been kicked out of Hercules' [...] D
Cleopatra: [invites Hercules into her trailer] Oh, [...] D
Phroso: Don't go out filling your hide with a lot [...] D
Hercules: [to Cleopatra] They're going to make you [...] D
Roscoe: [he married one of the Siamese twins, the [...] D
Hans: Are you laughing at me? Cleopatra: Why no, [...] D
Venus: [Venus is all upset because she has just be [...] D
Madame Tetrallini: [to the freaks after the Rollo [...] D
Freaks: We accept you, one of us! Gooble Gobble! D
Phroso: Schlitze you're a real man's woman. D
Phroso: [talking to Venus, who is all upset becaus [...] D
Cleopatra: [yelling at the Freaks, who just had a [...] D
Hercules: I'm tired of spending time and money on [...] D
Phroso: [talking to Venus, who is all upset becaus [...] D
Frieda: [Cleopatra is on the high trapeze; Frieda [...] D
Frieda: Please Hans, don't cry. I love you. D
Cleopatra: [playing with Frieda's skirt] Nice, nic [...] D
Carnival Barker: We didn't lie to you folks. We to [...] D
Frieda: [Frieda visits Hans at his trailer, to tal [...] D
Cleopatra: [faking that she has a pain in her left [...] D
Hans: Dummkopf! What have you on your shoulders fo [...] D
Cleopatra: [Invites Hercules into her circus wagon [...] D
Frieda: I was saying, tonight you must not smoke s [...] D
Frieda: It wasn't your fault, it was only the bott [...] D