The Mad Genius

Cruel passions! Mad longings! A monster playing with the souls of his fellow beings!

81 mins
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.

John Barrymore

Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov

Marian Marsh

Nana Carlova

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)

Walter Miller

Opera Spectator (uncredited)

Lee Moran

Montmartre Cabaret Director (uncredited)

Charles Williams

Stagehand (uncredited)

Harry Wilson

Curtain Man (uncredited)

Martin Brown

Theatre Play

David Mendoza

Conductor

Adolph Bolm

Choreographer

Charles Weidman

Stunt Double

Harvey F. Thew

Screenplay

Anton Grot

Art Direction

Barney McGill

Director of Photography

David Mendoza

Original Music Composer

Earl Luick

Costume Design

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