Double Feature
Freaks
Tod Browning’s pre-code horror masterpiece!
Cleopatra, a circus’ beautiful trapeze artist, agrees to marry Hans, the leader of a group of side-show performers. But after a shocking revelation, the members of the troupe learn that she has been having an affair with the circus strong man and is only marrying their friend for his inheritance. As Cleopatra plots to kill off Hans with her accomplice, the side-show acts come to his aid and plan an intervention of their own. (Park Circus)
- Director
- Tod Browning
- Writer
- Screenplay by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon suggested by the story Spurs by Tod Robbins
- Starring
- Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
- Year
- 1932
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 64 minutes
Mark of the Vampire
Mark of the Vampire is Tod Browning’s remake of his own 1927 thriller London After Midnight. The sudden appearance of ghostly vampires in a remote European community is seemingly tied in with an old, unsolved murder case. Police inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) and occult expert Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore) investigate, with the full cooperation of leading citizen Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt). For a while, it looks as though the vampires – Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his chalky-faced daughter Luna (Carroll Borland) – will continue to hold the community in thrall… (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Tod Browning
- Writer
- Screen play by Guy Endore and Bernard Schubert
- Starring
- Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt
- Year
- 1935
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 61 minutes