• Certainly fits Browning’s obsession with deformity, oddities and carnival background
  • Visually he fully embraces shadows here in the mise-en-scene and has some great shots of the jux-apposition, in shadows, of the size of Harry Earles as Tweedledee and the giant Victor McLaglen in an early role as “Hercules”
  • It’s a solid film but there’s something a little misguided about having a major part/character being a ventriloquist in a silent film
  • Not a top 10 of the year worthy film but in the archives
  • Recommend