The Mad Genius
Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Director Michael Curtiz
Trailer
Cast
Charles Butterworth
Karimsky
Chester A. Bachman
Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
Fedor's Father (uncredited)
Walter Miller
Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Lee Moran
Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)
John Barrymore
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Marian Marsh
Nana Carlova
Donald Cook
Fedor Ivanoff
Mae Madison
Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Curtain Man (uncredited)
Luis Alberni
Sergei Bankieff
Carmel Myers
Sonya Preskoya
André Luguet
Count Robert Renaud
Frankie Darro
Fedor as a Boy
Charles Brinley
Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Charles Williams
Stagehand (uncredited)