On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Cast
Lon Chaney
Alonzo
Norman Kerry
Malabar
Joan Crawford
Nanon Zanzi
Nick De Ruiz
Antonio Zanzi
John George
Cojo
Frank Lanning
Costra
Tom Amandares
Gypsy Running to Zanzi's Death Scene (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
Fortune Teller (uncredited)
Louise Emmons
Gypsy Woman (uncredited)
Italia Frandi
Girl in Audience Flirting with Malabar (uncredited)
Venezia Frandi
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Polly Moran
Landlady / Servant in Audience (uncredited)
Julian Rivero
Man in Theatre Audience (uncredited)
Billy Seay
The Little Wolf (uncredited)
Dorothy Seay
Spectator (uncredited)
John St. Polis
Surgeon (uncredited)
Crew
Tod Browning
Director, Story
Joseph Farnham
Writer, Title Graphics
Waldemar Young
Screenplay
Harry Reynolds
Editor
Errol Taggart
Editor
Merritt B. Gerstad
Director of Photography
Harry Sharrock
Assistant Director
Irving Thalberg
Producer
Lucia Coulter
Wardrobe Supervisor, Costume Design
Sam Feinberg
Musician
Jack Feinberg
Musician
Clarence Sinclair Bull
Still Photographer
Paul Desmuke
Stunt Double
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Richard Day
Art Direction
Recommendations
view all
The Man Who Laughs
The Vanishing
The Circus
Not Easily Broken
I Met a Girl
Winter's Tale
Untamed Heart
Flamingo Road
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
The Greatest Show on Earth
Fallen Angel
The Sheik
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Life in a Year
One from the Heart
The Secret: Dare to Dream
A California Christmas
Moonlight Mile
Lady in a Cage
Father of the Bride