The Unknown (1927 film)

The Unknown is a 1927 film about a criminal on the run who hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

Directed by Tod Browning. Written by Waldemar Young.

Alonzo the Armless

• No one will get her... no one but me!

Malabar the Mighty

• There is a time for fear, Nanon... and a time for hate... and a time for love.

• You are a riddle, Nanon. You shrink from me... yet you kiss my flowers when I am gone.

Nanon Zanzi

• You are right, Alonzo... brute strength does not mean everything to all women. Alonzo, all my life men have tried to put their beastly hands on me... to paw over me. I have grown so that I shrink with fear when any man even touches me.

Dialogue

Malabar the Mighty: See, Nanon! Eyes that adore you... hands that long to caress you... and strength to protect you! Why do you always draw away from me?

Nanon Zanzi: Why isn't he different from other men! Why doesn't he keep his hands off me? Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them! Men! The beasts! God would show wisdom if he took the hands from all of them! Forgive me, Alonzo... I did not mean you. You are the one man I can come to without fear.

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Nanon Zanzi: [embraces Alonzo when he returns from being away at the hospital] You are thinner, Alonzo! Have you been sick?

Alonzo the Armless: No not sick... but I have lost some flesh.

Cast

• Lon Chaney — Alonzo the Armless
• Norman Kerry — Malabar the Mighty
• Joan Crawford — Nanon Zanzi
• Nick De Ruiz — Antonio Zanzi
• John George — Cojo
• Frank Lanning — Costra

External links

• The Unknown quotes at the Internet Movie Database