The Mad Genius

Sep 30, 1931

1h 21m

★ 6.3

Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!

Overview

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Romance

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov

John Barrymore

Nana Carlova

Marian Marsh

Karimsky

Charles Butterworth

Fedor Ivanoff

Donald Cook

Sergei Bankieff

Luis Alberni

Sonya Preskoya

Carmel Myers

Count Robert Renaud

André Luguet

Fedor as a Boy

Frankie Darro

Poster Hanger (uncredited)

Chester A. Bachman

Poster Hanger (uncredited)

Charles Brinley

Fedor's Father (uncredited)

Boris Karloff

Olga Chekova (uncredited)

Mae Madison

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