Top cast:Joseph Graybill,Mabel Normand,Charles Hill Mailes
Director:Irvin Kershner
Genre:Biography
Region:Macau
Year:2001
Storyline:Possibly unnoticed, it provided detailed cartoon sketches of some of the sideshow characters, covered over by the capitalized title:FREAKS.Outside the palace perimeter, a ghastly, bloody Shiva shrine scared off the guides and elephants.Forced to walk to the palace, they were welcomed by Prime Minister Chattar Lal (Roshan Seth) and British Captain Phillip Blumburtt (Philip Stone) of the Indian Army, there on a "routine inspection tour.The dated story was an example of the 'portmanteau' style (everything revolved around or was tied together by a single location, a fashionable foreign hotel in this case).She retrieves it when she stands to dance with a steady procession of admirers and guests.Her girlish naivete and modern-day leanings (and exasperation with endless functions) are expressed when she is tucked primly into her bed in an old-fashioned nightgown by her lady-in-waiting chaperone, Countess Vereberg (Margaret Rawlings):Ann: I hate this nightgown.The American gothic, Biblical tale of greed, innocence, seduction, sin and corruption was adapted for the screen by famed writer-author James Agee (and Laughton, but without screen credit).