{"id":34265,"date":"2023-10-24T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34265"},"modified":"2023-10-24T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:01:46","slug":"the-unknown-1927-directed-by-tod-browning-starring-lon-chaney-joan-crawford-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34265","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Unknown&#8221; (1927) directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney &#038; Joan Crawford \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102423zview_theunknown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Unknown <\/strong><\/em>(1927)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Tod Browning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Waldemar Young;<\/strong> from a story by<strong>Tod Browning;\u00a0 Joseph Farnham <\/strong>(titles)\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Lon Chaney, .Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford<\/strong> and<strong>John George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Against a background of colorful circus life, and the sinister shadow of the underworld, is played a drama of love and revenge that will grip you! And through it stalks the mysterious figure of a deformed circus performer- The Unknown &#8211; a role just made for the brilliant Lon Chaney!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Alonzo the Armless&#8221; (Chaney) works as a circus stunt performer.\u00a0 He uses his feet to throw knives and shoot a gun with deadly accuracy.\u00a0 Alonzo is not the man&#8217;s real name. He goes by it because he&#8217;s hiding from the law.\u00a0 The truth is that Alonzo has arms. He keeps them bound tightly to his body. No one (except his trusted partner Cojo) is aware of the deception.\u00a0 Alonzo hides his arms because he was born with a deformed double thumb that the police know about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alonzo is in love with the circus owner&#8217;s daughter, Nanon (Crawford). Although Namon likes Alonzo, she is unaware of the depth of his affection for her.\u00a0 Malabar, the circus strongman, also has feelings for Nanon.\u00a0 As Alonzo&#8217;s obsession with Nanon grows, so does his willingness to cross any line to have her.\u00a0 Before the tale is done, Alonzo will murder multiple people and do something so unexpected, to say more would ruin the twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tod Browning and Lon Chaney collaborated on eight films.\u00a0 <em>The Unknown<\/em> is considered to be their best work. It has been called a <em>&#8220;masterpiece of silent cinema&#8221;<\/em> and I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The step that Alonzo takes to win Nanon is so shocking that the audience is still reeling when Browning hits a twist worthy of O. Henry.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t tried or liked silent films, I&#8217;d suggest you give <em>The Unknown<\/em> a shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102423zview_theunknown2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unknown (1927) Director:\u00a0 Tod Browning Screenplay by: \u00a0Waldemar Young; from a story byTod Browning;\u00a0 Joseph Farnham (titles)\u00a0 Starring:\u00a0 Lon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34287,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions\/34287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}