The Unknown (1927)

192749mdir. Tod BrowningUnited Stateshorror filmsilent film

With Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, Frank Lanning, John George

The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower "Alonzo the Armless" and Joan Crawford as his beloved carnival girl Nanon. Originally titled Alonzo the Armless, filming took place from February 7 to March 18, 1927 on a $217,000 budget.

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