The Mad Genius (1931)
Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
- Date of release
- 1931-09-30
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Romance
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
Casting
- John Barrymore — Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
- Marian Marsh — Nana Carlova
- Charles Butterworth — Karimsky
- Donald Cook — Fedor Ivanoff
- Luis Alberni — Sergei Bankieff
- Carmel Myers — Sonya Preskoya
- André Luguet — Count Robert Renaud
- Frankie Darro — Fedor as a Boy
- Chester A. Bachman — Poster Hanger (uncredited)
- Charles Brinley — Poster Hanger (uncredited)
- Boris Karloff — Fedor's Father (uncredited)
- Mae Madison — Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Recommended
- Lili 1953 · ★ 6.7
- The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 · ★ 6.4
- High Strung 2016 · ★ 7.0
- Trapeze 1956 · ★ 6.3
- Flamingo Road 1949 · ★ 7.0
- StreetDance 3D 2010 · ★ 6.5
- Dishonored 1931 · ★ 7.0
- High Strung Free Dance 2018 · ★ 7.3
- The Man Who Laughs 1928 · ★ 7.4
- Marty 1955 · ★ 7.5
- There's Always Tomorrow 1956 · ★ 7.2
- The Red Shoes 1948 · ★ 8.0