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Show # 23 up for comments.

Hey Vince - I just listened to this episode again and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. I saw this movie the first time at a theater in Toronto in 1969. I loved it so much that I sat through two more showings. I saw several of his silent films at the same theater. We did not realize then how lucky we were to have theaters that ran those old films. Not that many folks get to see such good stuff on the big screen anymore. Wow do I sound like one of those grouchy old folks or what?

"DITTO"

It took a while but finally listening to the episode
The delay was first the holidays then getting hold of a copy of the movie which than sat on my hard drive for a while since it wasn't really good quality. Then what do you know a couple of days after TCM showed Mark of the Vampire they also screened Freaks and a might fine copy at that.

Well that was a strange movie.
As Nic said the movie certainly did not portray the side show acts as "freaks" in terms of the humanity infact it was some of the "normal" humans that were the disturbed and flawed ones. Take the freak aspect out and you actually do get a fairly traditional noir movie (before film noir become established) where a femme fatale dupes a dude but gets her comeuppance.
I was also surprised to see the MGM logo in the credits although having watching some programming on US film censorship or lack thereof in the early days I shouldn't have been thinking of the movie being a low budget off lot production.
There was some clips of the alternate endings on youtube but none showing the original cut of the movie.

Thanks for listening. The DVD has a lot of cool stuff on it. I could make you a copy if you want. Quite a film!

Later Vince

No thanks Vince, not a movie I'd probably ever watch again, after hearing about the extended cut I was just curious what would "freak" out the moral majority of the time.
There's been a show called "Sex and the Silver Screen" on the Arts channel and the first installment was all about pre-code productions, quite risky for the time and well one scene actually shocked me a little

Vince I would love a copy if you would! I would like to see the extras. :-D

No Problem e-mail where you want it sent.

Later Vince