Freaks

"Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?"

Feb 20 1932 Not Rated 1h 4m
Drama, Horror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Plot

A circus trapeze artist, Cleopatra, takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow. Her interest however is in the money Hans will be inheriting and she is actually carrying on an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what she thinks of them. Together, the freaks decide to make her one of their own.

Written by

Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon

Directed by

Tod Browning

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

Deutsch, Français, English

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination total

Scores
# of Votes
52,482
Average Rating
7.8 out of 10
Metascore
80
Popularity
NA