aristocrat be eccentric people and though not totally unlike other human being and and a a result have a fondness for people who be different or bizarre . this be a good reason to spend again a summer night in the schloss in the company of a whole bizarre gypsy circus and a very strange circus that have a one of it attraction and the harmless armless alonzo ( herr lon chaney ) . alonzo will gradually become more sinister during the film and finally will rise up in arm when he fail to succeed with his evil intention . in such a superb oeuvre and silent film fan can find or meet again a variety of freakish people with evil intention ( the perfect equation ) . in this circus nothing be a it seem to be represent a man who throw the knife at a beautiful and complicated girl who can not stand men hand and a strongman and handsome guy with good intention and a sarcastic midget and a mad doctor and even a tyrannical circus owner . they share unrequited love and malicious intention and strange and unique phobia and and suffer from amputation of body and soul . sum up and the unknown and film direct by herr tod brown during the silent year of 1927 and be the quintessential circus silent film and a genre that this german count love so much . it have a decadent atmosphere but it be the twisted second half of the oeuvre that give to the film and if it be possible and more boldness and darkness and evil and not to mention that it be always a pleasure to check up again and again on this wonderful and terrible circus troupe and surely a collection of the most hideous and complicate and malicious people find in the whole silent world . and now and if you will allow me and i must temporarily take my leave because this german count must join such a strange and perverse circus troupe . herr graf ferdinand von galitzien http represent or or ferdinandvongalitzien . blogspot . com or .