You've heard all about the live music scores to silent movie classics. Now see one of the best.
This truly spectacular and bizarre silent classic stars the "Man of a Thousand Faces," Lon Chaney. He puts in an incredible performance as circus attraction "Alonzo The Armless," who throws knives with his feet. Beautiful young Joan Crawford plays the daughter of the circus owner. She hates and fears men's arms. So it's a match made in heaven, right? Wrong. It turns out that Alonzo actually has a perfectly good pair of arms tucked away under his clothes and he has on occasion used them for strangling people with - in fact his whole armless act is a designed to throw off the police who have been pursuing him across Europe. But with the buoyant energy of one truly in love, he bribes a doctor to amputate his arms so he can be Joan Crawford's dreamy armless loverboy. What could go wrong? Plenty, of course, but we've said enough. Join us for one of the most unbelievable movies ever made, accompanied by the perfect live score provided by Austin's own globetrotting masters of musical melange, The Invincible Czars!
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