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(CINEMA) Group of 10 publicity stills from the movie Freaks,the classic horror tale directed by Tod Browning and reissued by Dwain Esper. Silver prints, the images measuring 7x9 1/4 inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with an inventory number in the negative and a printed caption in the margin. 1932; printed circa 1962
Browning's horror film about sideshow performers exacting revenge was a box office bomb and banned in the UK for thirty years. In 1961 a print of the film was rediscovered and subsequently screened at the Venice Film Festival. The edited version was released by Esper, an American director whose low-budget features, Sex Maniac, Marihuana, and How to Undress in Front of Your Husband emerged as B-movie cult classics of the counterculture.
