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