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The Mad Genius

1931 · Michael Curtiz · 81 min

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Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

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6.4/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database23 votesTMDB
John BarrymoreVladimar Ivan TsarakovMarian MarshNana CarlovaCharles ButterworthKarimskyDonald CookFedor IvanoffLuis AlberniSergei BankieffCarmel MyersSonya PreskoyaAndré LuguetCount Robert RenaudFrankie DarroFedor as a BoyChester A. BachmanPoster Hanger (uncredited)Charles BrinleyPoster Hanger (uncredited)Boris KarloffFedor's Father (uncredited)Mae MadisonOlga Chekova (uncredited)Walter MillerOpera Spectator (uncredited)Lee MoranMontmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)Charles WilliamsStagehand (uncredited)

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John BarrymoreVladimar Ivan TsarakovMarian MarshNana CarlovaCharles ButterworthKarimskyDonald CookFedor IvanoffLuis AlberniSergei BankieffCarmel MyersSonya PreskoyaAndré LuguetCount Robert RenaudFrankie DarroFedor as a BoyChester A. BachmanPoster Hanger (uncredited)Charles BrinleyPoster Hanger (uncredited)Boris KarloffFedor's Father (uncredited)Mae MadisonOlga Chekova (uncredited)Walter MillerOpera Spectator (uncredited)Lee MoranMontmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)Charles WilliamsStagehand (uncredited)

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