{"id":34441,"date":"2023-11-12T05:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2023-11-12T05:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:45:28","slug":"the-show-1927-directed-by-tod-browning-starring-john-gilbert-renee-adoree-lionel-barrymore-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34441","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Show&#8221; (1927) directed by Tod Browning, starring John Gilbert, Renee Adoree &#038; Lionel Barrymore \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z111223zview_theshow27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Show <\/strong><\/em>(1927)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Tod Browning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Written by:<strong> Joseph Farnham, <\/strong>Screenplay by<strong> Waldemar Young, <\/strong>based on THE DAY OF SOULS by<strong> Joseph Farnham<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>John Gilbert, Ren\u00e9e Ador\u00e9e, Lionel Barrymore<\/strong><strong>, Edward Connelly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Strange were these figures in the show the crowds gaped at. But stranger by far the drama of underworld life they played back of the scenes! An amazing romance, a lurid tale of a rogue, torn between baser passions and a girl&#8217;s redeeming love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cock Robin (Gilbert) is the star of a sideshow.\u00a0 Robin is a handsome ladies man.\u00a0 He has a charisma about him that he puts to use drawing in crowds to see the human oddities.\u00a0 Robin also participates in the acts.\u00a0 After the shows are over, Robin always has female admirers waiting for the chance to pay for his dinner and spend the evening with him. Robin&#8217;s behavior doesn&#8217;t endear him to other members of the sideshow.\u00a0 The women are disappointed and the men jealous.<\/p>\n<p>One of Robin&#8217;s admirers is a young woman named Lena.\u00a0 Robin learns that Lena&#8217;s father is wealthy.\u00a0 Perhaps, it is time to settle down.\u00a0 Perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Lena&#8217;s father is killed in an attempted robbery, Robin becomes the main suspect. Someone in the show has set him up.\u00a0 But who?\u00a0 And is there anyone who will help him clear his name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tod Browning who would go on to direct<em> Dracula<\/em> and (the more closely related to <em>The Show)<\/em>\u00a0<em>Freaks.<\/em> Browning was the perfect person to direct this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Gilbert displays the charisma needed to play the lead.\u00a0 The great Lionel Barrymore as the villain.\u00a0 What more could we want?<\/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\/z111223zview_theshow27b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Show (1927) Director: Tod Browning Written by: Joseph Farnham, Screenplay by Waldemar Young, based on THE DAY OF SOULS<\/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-34441","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\/34441","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=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34468,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/34468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}