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The Unholy Three (1925)
Country of Origin:
USA
Year of Production: 1925
Running Times: 86 mins
Length: 2117.75 metres 7 reels
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: silent
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Presenter: Louis B. Mayer
SCRIPT
Scenario: Waldemar Young
Novel: Tod Robbins
DIRECTION
Director: Tod Browning
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: David Kesson
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Daniel Gray
SOUND
Recording Engineer: Anstruther MacDonald (uncredited)
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Settings: Cedric Gibbons, Joseph Wright
STUNTS
Stunts: Harvey Parry (uncredited) CAST
Lon Chaney (Professor
Echo, the Ventriloquist / Mrs 'Granny' O'Grady)
Mae Busch (Rosie O'Grady)
Matt Moore (Hector MacDonald)
Victor McLaglen (Hercules)
Harry Earles (Tweedledee / Little Willie)
Matthew Betz (Detective Regan)
Edward Connelly (the judge)
William Humphreys (defense attorney)
A.E. Warren (prosecuting attorney)
Walter P. Cole (human skeleton - uncredited)
Carrie Daumery (customer - uncredited)
Delmo Fritz, Peter Kortos (sword swallowers - uncredited)
Alice Julian (fat lady - uncredited)
Violet Kane (Arlington daughter in photo - uncredited)
Mickey McBan (boy watching Hercules' act - uncredited)
John Merkyl (jeweler - uncredited)
John Millerta (wild Borneo man - uncredited)
Louis Morrison (police commissioner - uncredited)
Marjorie Morton (Mrs Arlington - uncredited)
Walter Perry (dime museum announcer - uncredited)
Louis Shank (newsboy - uncredited)
Vera Vance (dancer - uncredited)
Charles Wellesley (John Arlington - uncredited)
Percy Williams (butler - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Echo the sideshow ventriloquist and his accomplices,
Tweedledee the midget and Hercules the strongman, set up shop and
begin to prey on their wealthy customers, Echo disguised as a seemingly
harmless old lady.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Metro Goldwyn Distributing Company
TIMELINE
1925
June
24: USA – copyright approved (LP21593)
August
16: USA – theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Le club des trois – French title
A Trindade Maldita – Portugese title
El trío fantástico – Spanish
title
Die Unheimlichen Drei – Austrian title
LINKS
REMAKE
The Unholy Three (1930)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
SEE ALSO
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
KEYWORDS
apes, birds, book into film, carnivals, detectives, dwarves, female impersonaters,
judges, kidnapping, midgets, museums, parrots, pickpockets, sideshows, strongmen,
trials, ventriloquists
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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