The Unknown (1927) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1194]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1420x1080, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 1hr 08mn | 2.07 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ English: AC3, 2 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces” as the armless Spanish knife thrower Alonzo (he flings daggers with his feet) whose dastardly infatuation with his beautiful assistant (Joan Crawford)—a woman, it just so happens, who cannot bear to be touched by the hands of any man—drives him to unspeakable extremes. Sadomasochistic obsession, deception, murder, disfigurement, and a spectacular Grand Guignol climax—Browning wrings every last frisson from the lurid premise.