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The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.
The Unknown is by far the most intense and demented of director Tod Browning's films (which include Dracula and Freaks). Joan Crawford always said that she learned more about acting from working with Chaney in this movie than from everything else in her long career put together, and critics often cite Chaney's performance as one of the best ever captured on film. Burt Lancaster always maintained that Chaney's portrayal in The Unknown was the most emotionally compelling film performance he had ever seen an actor give. Chaney also did remarkable and convincing collaborative scenes with real-life armless double Paul Desmuke (sometimes credited as Peter Dismuki), whose legs and feet were used to manipulate objects such as knives and cigarettes in frame with Chaney's upper body and face.
Actors: Philip Hersh (actor), John Chia-Lin Chang (actor), Menetie T. Ejeye (director), Menetie T. Ejeye (producer), Menetie T. Ejeye (producer), Menetie T. Ejeye (writer), Menetie T. Ejeye (writer), Menetie T. Ejeye (actor), Eiji Inoue (actor), Eugenia Kuzmina (actress), Tamara Goodwin (actress), Terumi Shimazu (actress), Naoyuki Ikeda (actor), Mantha Balourdou (actress), Xuelian Lei (actress),
Plot: Marvin Fields is caught up with challenges and obstacles. On the verge of losing his family, he has to step up and face his adversaries. Marvin tries different avenues to help eliminate these difficulties, but his efforts are futile. Now, he decides to take desperate measures in saving his family and finances. When hell breaks loose and nothing seems to work, a true character is revealed through Marvin. Later on, Marvin discovers martial arts through his best friend Frank Biggs. This martial art will help Marvin find himself again and give him a sense of purpose. As he continues to search deeper his new found art, his troubles aren't stagnant. Marvin still has to wake up and face the demons of his life. Marvin has got to get his life out of this never diminishing cage and find freedom. In the meantime, Claire Fields (Marvin's wife) is fed up and tired of supporting the family. Marvin's cage seems invisible to Claire, and this continues to trigger his frustration. In the end, true love and friendship will be revealed and seem to help break down the barriers around this mysterious cage.
Genres: Action, Sport, Thriller,Actors: Jon Campling (actor), Gary Scullion (director), Gary Scullion (editor), Gary Scullion (writer), Sean Francis George (actor), Jo Marriott (actress), Nick Acott (director), Angela Dunkley (actress), Victoria Feakes (actress), Michael Adefehinti (actor), Anna Sheldrick (actress), Nicholas Sisouphone (actor), Joe Mitchell (actor), Kieran Kerrigan (actor), Richard Ash (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Andrew Lowe (actor), Erik Hoffmann (producer), Erik Hoffmann (director), Shawn Pang (editor), Mindy Fyfe (actress), Rhianna Malezer (costume designer),
Plot: A mentally disturbed young office worker finds emotional interference from encountering his own minds' good and bad consciences, in the forms of a mysterious woman named Hemera, attempting to guide him away from an unknown stranger; who tries to psychologically drag him towards the wrong choices in life.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Short,Actors: Brian Caylor (editor), Brian Caylor (director), Brian Caylor (producer), Yinique Myo-Flores (actor), Amresh Gosai (actor), Amresh Gosai (producer), Griffin O'Connor (miscellaneous crew), Jason Nelson (director), Jason Nelson (writer), Aaron Barkhousen (miscellaneous crew), Reyna Ramierz (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Aleksandr Baluev (actor), Valentin Gaft (actor), Nina Usatova (actress), Sergey Garmash (actor), Aleksey Guskov (actor), Ivan Bortnik (actor), Olga Ostroumova (actress), Vladimir Khotinenko (director), Vladislav Galkin (actor), Aleksandr Pantykin (composer), Larisa Shakhvorostova (actress), Pyotr Tomashevskiy (actor), Velimir Rusakov (actor), Innokentiy Malinkin (producer), Aleksandr Aravin (writer),
Plot: Mystical thriller based on Aleksey Birger's novel of the same name. Winter of 1946. A young officer of Cavalry Sergey Vysik after demobilization is appointed the head at Criminal investigation department near Moscow. He is charge of an abandoned stud farm, some villages nearby, a factory, workers' town and railway warehouses where trophies from Germany and some humanitarian loads from soviet governments are kept. When Vysik came to Mitrohino village where there was a local police department, he was going to solve some problems there - someone stole horses from the stud farm and there was a series of cruel murders of a former head of police department, night guard, some local residents and "a special person" from Moscow. Moreover, all the residents are terrified by gossips that a horrible elusive werewolf committed all these crimes. Regardless of his boss' order to ignore all the prejudice, Vysik wants to find out what is that force keeping all the people in terror.
Keywords: tv-mini-seriesActors: Maude Eburne (actress), James Smith (editor), Wilson Benge (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Joseph M. Schenck (producer), Sidney D'Albrook (actor), Una Merkel (actress), DeWitt Jennings (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Chester Morris (actor), Richard Tucker (actor), Gustav von Seyffertitz (actor), Grayce Hampton (actress), Mary Roberts Rinehart (writer), Chance Ward (actor),
Plot: Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. He leaves a note saying he is going to the country to give the police a rest. Pausing only to rob a bank at Oakdale, he proceeds to terrorise the occupants of a lonely country mansion, in a mixture of thrills, chills and laughs. At the end, an actor steps forward through a proscenium arch and asks the viewers not to reveal the Bat's identity to their friends. A film noir shot in black and white, mainly at night in dimly lit scenes.
Keywords: arch-villain, bank-robbery, based-on-play, bat, bear-trap, blueprint, melodrama, old-dark-house, ouija-board, remakeActors: Alexandre Dumas père (writer), George A. Cooper (writer), G.H. Mulcaster (actor), G.H. Mulcaster (actor), George J. Banfield (director), George J. Banfield (producer), George J. Banfield (writer), Peggy Carlisle (actress), Annesley Healy (actor), Gabrielle Morton (actress), Leslie Eveleigh (director), Anthony L. Ellis (writer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Bessie Love (actress), Norman Dawn (director), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Sessue Hayakawa (actor), Thomas Jefferson (actor), Misao Seki (actor), Tote Du Crow (actor), Sidney Franklin (actor), Omar Whitehead (actor), Ann May (actress), Alice Catlin (writer), Edwin Warren Juyol (writer), Homer Lea (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jessie Ralph (actress), George B. Seitz (writer), Richard Harding Davis (writer), Donald MacKenzie (director), Sam J. Ryan (actor), Fania Marinoff (actress), Rhy Alexander (actress), David Burton (actor), Melville Stewart (actor), Clifton Crawford (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy,