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 Brinley
Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
Fedor's Father (uncredited)
John Barrymore
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Walter Miller
Opera Spectator (uncredited)
Charles Williams
Stagehand (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Curtain Man (uncredited)
Donald Cook
Fedor Ivanoff
Luis Alberni
Sergei Bankieff
Carmel Myers
Sonya Preskoya
Charles Butterworth
Karimsky
André Luguet
Count Robert Renaud
Lee Moran
Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)
Mae Madison
Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Marian Marsh
Nana Carlova
Frankie Darro
Fedor as a Boy
Chester A. Bachman
Poster Hanger (uncredited)