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O Monstro do Circo

Título original: The Unknown
  • 1927
  • Unrated
  • 1 h 8 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
7,7/10
9,9 mil
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Joan Crawford and Lon Chaney in O Monstro do Circo (1927)
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Um atirador de facas, de grande sucesso num circo por não ter braços e usar os pés nos seus números, esconde um grande segredo.Um atirador de facas, de grande sucesso num circo por não ter braços e usar os pés nos seus números, esconde um grande segredo.Um atirador de facas, de grande sucesso num circo por não ter braços e usar os pés nos seus números, esconde um grande segredo.

  • Direção
    • Tod Browning
  • Roteiristas
    • Tod Browning
    • Waldemar Young
    • Joseph Farnham
  • Artistas
    • Lon Chaney
    • Norman Kerry
    • Joan Crawford
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    7,7/10
    9,9 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Tod Browning
    • Roteiristas
      • Tod Browning
      • Waldemar Young
      • Joseph Farnham
    • Artistas
      • Lon Chaney
      • Norman Kerry
      • Joan Crawford
    • 128Avaliações de usuários
    • 63Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
    • Prêmios
      • 2 vitórias e 2 indicações no total

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    Lon Chaney
    Lon Chaney
    • Alonzo
    Norman Kerry
    Norman Kerry
    • Malabar
    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Nanon
    Nick De Ruiz
    • Zanzi
    John George
    John George
    • Cojo
    Frank Lanning
    Frank Lanning
    • Costra
    Tom Amandares
    • Gypsy running to Zanzis Death Scene
    • (não creditado)
    Margaret Bert
    • Fortune Teller
    • (não creditado)
    Louise Emmons
    Louise Emmons
    • Gypsy Woman
    • (não creditado)
    Italia Frandi
    • Girl in Audience Flirting with Malabar
    • (não creditado)
    Venezia Frandi
    • Woman in Audience
    • (não creditado)
    Polly Moran
    Polly Moran
    • Landlady
    • (não creditado)
    • …
    Julian Rivero
    Julian Rivero
    • Man in Theatre Audience
    • (não creditado)
    Billy Seay
    Billy Seay
    • The Little Wolf
    • (não creditado)
    Dorothy Seay
    • Spectator
    • (não creditado)
    John St. Polis
    John St. Polis
    • Surgeon
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • Tod Browning
    • Roteiristas
      • Tod Browning
      • Waldemar Young
      • Joseph Farnham
    • Elenco e equipe completos
    • Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro

    Avaliações de usuários128

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    9peteykins666

    Creepy, unsettling masterpiece!

    I've heard so much about this movie, and it was not a disappointment. The surviving print seems to be missing some scenes, which accounts for its short length, but I doubt it takes away much from this twisted, sadistic "Gift of the Magi" gone bad. Chaney's performance is remarkable and, at times, genuinely alarming, and the very young Joan Crawford is a typical, but nevertheless appealing silent film heroine. Parts of this film really had me squirming, particularly towards the end. Browning's visual sense is the most beautiful I've seen in any of his films other than Dracula, with a full range of greys, whites and blacks and painterly compositions. It's available on TCM's excellent Lon Chaney Collection DVD.
    8gbheron

    A Very Weird Movie

    "The Unknown" has to have one of the strangest plots of any movie I've seen, but I can't describe it without spoiling it. Suffice to say; coming from the mind of Tod Browning who set the story in a traveling carnival, you know it's going to be delving into some heavy weirdness.

    "The Unknown" is a silent film starring Lon Chaney, Sr., as carnival star Alonzo the Armless, an expert with gun and knife, who, because of his condition, must use his feet instead of hands. His assistant and unrequited love interest is Nanon, played by a very young and beautiful Joan Crawford. There's a love triangle between these two and the carnival strong man, and oh, what Alonzo won't do to win his ladylove.

    My only regret is that I saw the 49-minute version taped off of Turner Classic Movies, and the movie does go by quickly. Short as it is though, it's a weird and entertaining trip.
    7bsmith5552

    Another Chaney Love Triangle!

    "The Unknown" returns to a theme common in many of Lon Chaney's films, that of a man hopelessly in love with a woman he can never have.

    Alonzo, the armless man is performing in a gypsy circus as a sharpshooter/knife thrower working with the lovely Nanon (Joan Crawford) as his assistant. He is of course in love with her. Rounding out the triangle is circus strong man Malabar (Norman Kerry) who is also in love with Nanon. Nanon it seems cannot bear to have a man's hands touch her (Joan Crawford?).

    Alonzo is not what he seems to be. It turns out that he is a fugitive on the run and it is revealed that he actually does have arms and has created the armless man to hide a deformity that would identify him as the criminal the police are seeking. And given that Nanon cannot stand for a man to touch her, she repels Malabar's advances and places her trust in Alonzo.

    Nanon's father, Zanzi (Nick DeRuiz) wants his daughter to stay away from Alonzo and confronts him on the issue one night. Zanzi discovers Alonzo's secret so Alonzo murders him. Alonzo then re-confirms his intention to marry Nanon. Alonzo's trusted friend Cojo (John George) points out to Alonzo that should he marry Nanon, she would surely discover that he has arms on their wedding night. So, Alonzo sure that Nanon will marry him, arranges to have his arms amputated.

    When Alonzo returns from his ordeal he discovers that Nanon has gotten over her fear of men's hands and now plans to marry Malabar. Alonzo devastated, plots his revenge.

    Chaney plays an unsympathetic character in this film, so much so that he doesn't evoke the usual audience pity that he had in other films. His scenes as the armless man are outstanding and the things he does with his feet are truly amazing. And he could express so much emotion with just his facial expressions. Crawford was just getting her career into going and went on to a lengthy career spanning over 40 years. Kerry had also appeared with Chaney in both "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923) and "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925). The running time of the film varies depending on your sources. The version I saw runs about 50 minutes. The Citadel Book, "The Films of Joan Crawford" lists it at 65 minutes. IMDb lists running times of 61 and 49 minutes respectively. Despite the short running time it nevertheless presents a complete and riveting story. I would like to know what was cut out though.
    9wbhickok

    Another Browning Masterpiece

    This is a truly spellbinding movie, one of the more bizarre you are likely to see. With Lon Chaney hiding from the law pretending to be an armless circus performer. Joan Crawford is stunningly beautiful as Nanon, the girl he loves. A well done serpentine story that tells more in under an hour than most films made today can tell in two hours. Chaney is the best film actor of all time, he really was the man of a thousand faces. It is a shame that some Browning/Chaney films have been lost forever, but this is one that should be watched by all, it is fantastic.
    9BrandtSponseller

    Armed and dangerous

    The Unknown is one of the more interesting Lon Chaney collaborations with director/writer Tod Browning, as Chaney's typically physically malleable performance is often executed here in conjunction with "stunt double" Peter Dismuki. It also features a great, early appearance by Joan Crawford, a complex, gripping, allegorically deep but economically told story by Browning, and it is an excellent instantiation of themes found throughout Chaney and Browning's other work. It even strongly presages Browning's 1932 film, Freaks.

    Chaney is Alonzo the Armless, a performer in Antonio Zanzi's circus. Alonzo is in love with Nanon (Crawford), Antonio's daughter and Alonzo's assistant in his act, which consists of him using his feet to shoot guns and throw knives around Nanon with precision aim. In a typical Chaney film complicated love triangle, Nanon and Zanzi Circus strongman Malabar are also attracted to each other, but Nanon has an aversion to being touched and keeps distancing Malabar and any other man who wants to be intimate.

    Alonzo is the perfect complement for Nanon then, since he cannot manhandle her. She feels safe with him. But Antonio objects to Alonzo's approaches towards Nanon. Complex confrontations and a number of fabulous twists ensue, and Chaney fans will likely expect the resultant profound tragedy with the reciprocally bittersweet "happy ending" consequences.

    I probably made that synopsis sound more soap-operatic than it should, since it doesn't very well convey the overall twisted, creepy atmosphere that Browning achieves in The Unknown. Like Freaks, this isn't exactly a horror film, but it has all the unsettling, macabre attitude of one. Alonzo is one of Chaney's more demented, sinister characters, as almost every move he makes has a nefarious, ulterior motive. This even includes the reason that he joined the Zanzi Circus in the first place. It becomes quickly clear that Alonzo will stop at nothing to have Nanon all to himself. But because the character has no arms, he can't very well resort to physical bullying. Instead, Chaney paints a subversive and deviously manipulative character. Even the character's love for Nanon feels wicked--it's more of an unhealthy obsession than love.

    Browning makes good use of his largely pared down sets and cast. Except for the opening circus scene, most of the film takes place among only four characters, in only a handful of circus wagon (used later for both Freaks and Chaney's 1928 film Laugh, Clown, Laugh) and apartment locations, with the ending, set in a theater, symmetrically reflecting the opening of the film. A single scene in a formal courtyard provides a nice, symbolic contrast, as does the use of the "extended technique" of a thin piece of gauze placed over the camera lens for some of Nanon's scenes.

    Equally economical is Browning's complex story, which tells as much--with the aid of the performances--through implication of various backstories as it does through direct action. The (heavily allegorical) subtexts are fascinating. Nanon is frigid, so her most intimate relationship is with a man who has been effectively castrated. He is so obsessed with her that he'll physically sacrifice himself to enable a relationship. She secretly desires a normal love, but can't have one until she falls into it, or is tricked into it in a way. No one is quite honest with anyone else except for a man who is a relative simpleton, there to be manipulated. But he's the one who ends up coming out ahead, even though he never quite knows what is going on.

    Browning had to construct a number of elaborate set-ups to produce the illusion that Chaney had been using his feet to do everyday activities for a long time. We often see Chaney's body but Peter Dismuki's feet, such as when Alonzo is playing guitar, smoking, drinking, and so on. Occasionally, Dismuki just stood in for Chaney, usually when Alonzo has his back to the camera, but at least in one wider shot, we can see Dismuki's face.

    The 1997 score on the Turner Classic Movies version of the film by the Alloy Orchestra is occasionally excellent--especially during the climax of the film, and occasionally a bit pedestrian. When it's only pedestrian it's at least unobtrusive. The score has a modern, occasionally "rocky" feel that meshes surprisingly well.

    There are a few scenes missing from the print transferred to the TCM DVD, but for many years, The Unknown was thought to have been lost, similar to Browning and Chaney's 1927 film London After Midnight. A print was found at the Cinémathèque Française, mixed in with a lot of other films marked "unknown" because the contents were (at least temporally) unidentifiable. The missing scenes do not hurt the coherency of the film, which is a must-see at least for any Chaney or Browning fans.

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    • Curiosidades
      Joan Crawford always considered "O Monstro do Circo (1927)" a big turning point for her. She said it wasn't until working with Lon Chaney in this film that she learned the difference between standing in front of a camera and acting in front of a camera. She said that was all due to Chaney and his intense concentration, and after that experience she said she worked much harder to become a better actress.

      Chaney's performance certainly inspired co-star Crawford who wrote "Lon Chaney was my introduction to acting. The concentration, the complete absorption he gave to his characterization filled me with such awe I could scarcely speak to him...watching him have me the desire to be a real actress."
    • Erros de gravação
      Malabar pushes himself up off the bureau multiple times when talking to Nanon about flowers.
    • Citações

      Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: There is a time for fear, Nanon... and a time for hate... and a time for love.

    • Versões alternativas
      The Turner library print has a commissioned score by the Alloy Orchestra and runs 49 minutes.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Terror Universal (1998)

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 19 de dezembro de 1927 (Brasil)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
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    • Também conhecido como
      • The Unknown
    • Locações de filme
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Califórnia, EUA(Studio)
    • Empresa de produção
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • US$ 217.000 (estimativa)
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      • US$ 4.841
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      1 hora 8 minutos
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      • Black and White
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      • Silent
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      • 1.33 : 1

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