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Podcast: Fractured Skulls
Episode: Fractured Skulls 208: Freaks (1932)
Description: T2 & Monoxide are back to review MGM's 1932 controversial film Freaks! Everybody comes to see the greatest show! Plus Monoxide has another top 10 list!
PLOT: Circus trapeze artist Cleopatra takes an interest in Hans, a midget who works in the circus sideshow, but she is only interested in the money he will be inheriting; she's involved in an affair with another circus performer, Hercules. Hans's fiancée does her best to convince him that he is being used but to no avail. At their wedding party, a drunken Cleopatra tells the sideshow freaks just what s...