Live Music & Film The Unknown 1927 Ages 15+
Production still from The Unknown 1927 / Director: Tod Browning / Image courtesy: Roadshow Films / View full image
When
6.30 pm, Thu 31 Oct 2024 (68 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
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Adult
$20.00 -
Concession/Student
Concession Tickets
The Gallery accepts the following concession cards. Individual patrons must show concession cards to receive concessional entry.
Eligibility for standard concession entry includes:
- State and regional Gallery Guides - Association of Australian Gallery Guiding Organisations (AAGGO)
- Full Time Australian Tertiary and TAFE Students
- Full Time International Tertiary and TAFE Students with ISIC card and individual institution cards
- State Government Seniors Card (please note we do not accept Seniors Business Card Holders)
- Australian Government Pensioner Concession Card
- Australian Government Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
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- Carer Business Discount Card / Department of Families Card Holders
- National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA) Members
- Australian Museums and Galleries Association Membership Card (AMaGA)
The following Concession Cards are not accepted by the Gallery:
- Senior Business Discount Cards
- National Seniors Cards
- Any International Seniors Cards (including New Zealand)
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QAGOMA Member
$16.00
About
Organist David Bailey accompanies the silent horror classic The Unknown 1927 on the Gallery’s 1929 Wurlitzer organ. The film screens from a newly restored 35mm print.
Directed by master of the macabre Tod Browning – the filmmaker behind such classics as Dracula 1931 and Freaks 1932 – The Unknown follows the treacherous path of Lon Chaney's ‘Alonzo the Armless’, a circus performer who will do anything to keep his terrible secret.
Lost for decades, the film was rediscovered in partial form at the Cinémathèque Française in 1968. This incomplete version was further expanded by the recent discovery of a nitrate print at the National Film Archive in Prague, bringing the film back to a near-complete 68 minutes. Restored by the George Eastman Museum in New York, this spine-tingling masterpiece screens from a new 35mm print that showcases the full gothic power of Browning's vision.
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Tod Browning
- Script: Waldemar Young
- Based on: a story by Tod Browning
- Cinematographer: Merritt B Gerstad
- Editors: Harry Reynolds, Errol Taggart
- Cast: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry
- Print Source: George Eastman Museum, Rochester
- Rights: Roadshow Films
- Year: 1927
- Runtime: 68 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English intertitles
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm