Lot 384
384 •(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 7x9¼ 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
[1,000/1,500]
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.