On this day in movie history - The Unholy Three (1925 movie & novel):

The Unholy Three

directed by Tod Browning,

written by Tod Robbins, Waldemar Young,

based on the novel by Tod Robbins,

released in the United States on July 4, 1925.

Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz, Edward Connelly, William Humphrey, E. Alyn Warren, Margie Angus, Mary Angus, Violet N. Cane, Walter P. Cole, D'Arcy Corrigan, Carrie Daumery, Delno Fritz, Alice Julian, Peter Kortes, Mickey McBan, John Merkyl, John Millerta, Louis Morrison, Marjorie Morton, Walter Perry, Louis Shank, Vera Vance, Carrie Clark Ward, Charles Wellesley, Percy Williams.

Recommended reading:

The Unholy Three

By Tod Robbins.

Published by A.L. Burt Company,

First published 1917.

ASIN: B0DM4DFX7Y

Description:

Step right up, folks, and prepare to have your blood run cold as you meet the strangest, most bizarre trio of misfits ever spawned by a carnival of TWEEDLEDEE, an adult man trapped in the body of a three-year-old toddler, whose mask of childlike innocence hides a seething brain plotting hideous revenge against all that is sane and normal! HERCULES, the circus strongman, brutal, bestial, reveling in carnage and murder – yet the submissive slave of a deadly dwarf! ECHO, the expert ventriloquist with the uncanny ability to throw his voice so that lifeless wooden dummies seem to speak even as you or I! Together, they are THE UNHOLY THREE, star attractions of Tod Robbins’ classic novel of hate, murder and madness on and off the midway. Best known as author of the story which inspired the still-controversial fear-film FREAKS, Robbins first stunned the public with this intense account of a ruthless war on society waged by a triad of carny castaways.