The Unknown + Live Score

1927 68 min NR

Live Score by Paul Slavens

Screening on 35mm*
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June 3rd

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Rare three reeler silent 35mm print with Live Score by Paul Slavens

The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from "the Man of a Thousand Faces" as the armless Spanish knife thrower whose dastardly infatuation with his beautiful assistant (Joan Crawford)—a woman, it just so happens, who cannot bear to be touched by the hands of any man—drives him to unspeakable extremes. Sadomasochistic obsession, deception, murder, disfigurement, and a spectacular Grand Guignol climax—Browning wrings every last frisson from the lurid premise. - Criterion

Co-Presented by Cowtown Movie Classics

Directed By Tod Browning

Written By Tod Browning, Waldemar Young, Joseph Farnham

Starring Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford

Country United States

Language English

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