The Unknown

Plot

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

  • Tod Browning

    Director

  • Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Novel

  • Waldemar Young

    Screenplay

  • Joseph Farnham

    Writer

  • Tod Browning

    Story

  • Merritt B. Gerstad

    Director of Photography

  • Errol Taggart

    Editor

  • Harry Reynolds

    Editor

  • Lon Chaney

    Alonzo

  • Norman Kerry

    Malabar

  • Joan Crawford

    Nanon

  • Nick De Ruiz

    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)

  • Julian Rivero

    Man in Theatre Audience (uncredited)

  • Billy Seay

    The Little Wolf (uncredited)

  • Dorothy Seay

    Spectator (uncredited)

  • John St. Polis

    Surgeon (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    68 minutes

    Released

    1927-05-29

    Languages

    No Language

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Updated

    191 days ago

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