The Mad Genius (1931)
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.
- Released
- 1931-09-30
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Romance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Harvey F. Thew, J. Grubb Alexander, Michael Curtiz
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 23 votes
Cast
- John Barrymore as Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
- Marian Marsh as Nana Carlova
- Charles Butterworth as Karimsky
- Donald Cook as Fedor Ivanoff
- Luis Alberni as Sergei Bankieff
- Carmel Myers as Sonya Preskoya
- André Luguet as Count Robert Renaud
- Frankie Darro as Fedor as a Boy
- Chester A. Bachman as Poster Hanger (uncredited)
- Charles Brinley as Poster Hanger (uncredited)
- Boris Karloff as Fedor's Father (uncredited)
- Mae Madison as Olga Chekova (uncredited)