未知者 (1927)
The Unknown
马戏团团长的女儿由于长的美丽，经常受到男人的骚扰，她痛恨男人的双臂，痛恨男人用他们的脏手碰她，渐渐地形成了心理障碍。她只爱马戏团里的无臂人，可惜无臂人是个故意藏起双臂的逃犯，这个假无臂人也爱她，但是要想永远的得到她，必须真的削去双臂……但是，真的削了双臂，她却变了心……
演员阵容
- Lon Chaney — Alonzo
- Norman Kerry — Malabar
- 瓊·克勞馥 — 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)
趣闻
- 预算：US$21.7万
The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower "Alonzo the Armless" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon. Originally titled Alonzo the Armless, filming took place from February 7 to March 18, 1927 on a $217,000 budget.
Production
The genesis of the story lies in Browning’s reflections on an individual who suffers multiple amputations and the dramatic personal repercussions. Browning describes this process as beginning with the spectacle of traumatic disfigurement, rather than plot:
“The story writes itself after I have conceived the characters. The Unknown came to me after I had the idea of a man [Alonzo] without arms. I then asked myself what are the most amazing situations and actions that a man thus reduced could be involved...”
Actor and collaborator Chaney developed his characterization of Alonzo on the same premise: “I contrived to make myself look like an armless man, not simply to shock and horrify you but merely to bring to the screen a dramatic story of an armless man.”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer originally sought to pair new Swedish property Greta Garbo with Chaney, “the man of a thousand faces”, who was emerging as the studio’s top box office draw in 1927, but the female lead went to MGM starlet Joan Crawford.
Chaney collaborated with real-life armless double Paul Desmuke (sometimes credited as Peter Dismuki), who used his legs and feet to manipulate objects such as knives and cigarettes in frame with Chaney's upper body and face.
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