Leila Hyams
1) Freaks
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 586
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At the Cirque de Paris, society magician and famous disappearing artist Chéri-Bibi performs his act before a well-heeled Parisian audience. While Cecile, his friend and admirer, waits in his dressing room, unable to watch the daring feat, Chéri, with his hands and legs bound, is lowered into a tank of water. The audience grows silent as the clock ticks away, and firemen wait on the sidelines, prepared to rescue the magician should he fail to emerge...
4) Freaks
Publisher
Mr. FAT-W Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
7) Way out west
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
City-slicker carnival barker Windy thinks he got all the angles covered when he swindles a group of cowboys with a rigged roulette wheel while running a sideshow out West. But Windy didn't count on two things, getting robbed by his leading attraction and getting caught cheating by the Cowboys.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as 'Colonel' Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...