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