The Unholy Three

Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE is not a horror film, but it is one of Lon Chaney's best movies and biggest hits, about a trio of sideshow "freaks" who become criminals to get revenge on "normal" society.

Echo the ventriloquist (Lon Chaney) and his fellow dime museum sideshow performers, Hercules the strongman (Victor McLaglen) and Tweedledee the midget (Harry Earles), along with Echo's pickpocket girlfriend Rosie (Mae Busch), leave the carnival to start a bigger racket. They set up a phony bird store that's stocked with parrots that don't talk, and Echo, disguised as an old woman named "Mrs. O'Grady," makes the birds seem to talk by ventriloquism. When a wealth...