Biography: Tod Browning |
Browning joined a traveling circus while still a teenager, performing as a clown and contortionist. In 1915 he began acting at the Biograph studio and appeared in the modern sequence of D.W. Griffith's classic Intolerance; he also served as one of... more
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Cast: Tod Browning
Length: 71min
Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared in a mere two films, "starring" in only one. Miracles for Sale compounds the oversight by rechristening Merlini as "Michael...
Cast: Jean Hersholt Lionel Atwill
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Thriller Gothic Film
Length: 61min
Mark of the Vampire is Tod Browning's remake of his own 1927 thriller London After Midnight, which unfortunately no longer exists. The sudden appearance of ghostly vampires in a remote mittel-European community is seemingly tied in with an old,...
Cast: Mae Clarke
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 68min
This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top of a skyscraper. The story is based on a play called -Rivets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Lionel Barrymore
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 80min
Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist, Walthall reveals to Barrymore that he has developed a process to shrink human beings. Upon Walthall's death, Barrymore makes his...
Cast: Jean Harlow
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 73min
In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The fighter's manager is tickled by the turn of events and immediately snaps the boxer out of his love-struck funk and sets him a...
Cast: Edward G. Robinson
Tags: Crime Drama Gangster Film Crime Drama
Length: 76min
A remake of his 1921 film of the same name, Tod Browning's Outside the Law offers Edward G. Robinson in an incisive, pre-Little Caesar gangster portrayal. Robinson, however, is not the star of the picture: that honor goes to Owen Moore, cast as...
Cast: Joan Crawford
Tags: Melodrama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 80min
Paid was the third film version of the Bayard Veiller stage play -Within the Law. Joan Crawford is cast as a shopgirl falsely arrested for stealing and sent to jail for three years. She swears vengeance on the store owner (Purnell Pratt), and to that...
Tags: Thriller Drama Psychological Thriller Melodrama
Length: 66min
The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled -Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting -Spurs for the screen, writers Willis Goldbeck, Leon...
Cast: Dwight Frye
Tags: Gothic Film Horror
Length: 75min
"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Director Tod Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which were based on the...
Cast: Lon Chaney
Tags: Drama Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 70min
Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face covered with hideous scars (convincingly applied with nonflexible collodion), Chaney is cast as weather-beaten animal trapper...
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