MovieReleased
The Mad Genius
“Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!”
★ 6.4 Rating•81 min•1931
Select Server
Overview
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.
Cast
John Barrymore
Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
Marian Marsh
Nana Carlova
Charles Butterworth
Karimsky
Donald Cook
Fedor Ivanoff
Luis Alberni
Sergei Bankieff
Carmel Myers
Sonya Preskoya
André Luguet
Count Robert Renaud
Frankie Darro
Fedor as a Boy
Chester A. Bachman
Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Charles Brinley
Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
Fedor's Father (uncredited)
Mae Madison
Olga Chekova (uncredited)
Similar Movies
5.5
Triloquist
Movie2008
7.3
One Way Passage
Movie1932
6.7
Gun Smoke
Movie1931
4.8
The Girl from the Red Cabaret
Movie1973
6.9
Horse Feathers
Movie1932
Cicada Princess
5.8
Cicada Princess
Movie2012
5.5
Inside the Lines
Movie1930
Puppet
Puppet
MovieN/A
Pulling The Strings
MovieN/A
Muppet Man
MovieN/A
6.2
The Runaway Bride
Movie1930
6.6
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Movie1984