A double feature of two early Stroheim films. THE GREAT GABBO being of particular interest to horror fans in its bizarre theme and total weirdness.
THE GREAT GABBO (1929) Early talkie with ventriloquist Erich Von Stroheim in perhaps his most hateful role. He is a wife/girlfriend abuser and becomes totally unhinged as his dummy seems to take on a life of its own. An early psycho movie and maybe one of the first modern tellings of a "dummy" having a mind of its own....and, an evil one.
The other feature film here is the critically acclaimed BLIND HUSBANDS from 1919. A non-horror melodrama of a cruel love triangle and the strange twists that life leads these three individual, with a dramatic climax high in the mountains.
BLIND HUSBANDS comes from The Museum of Modern Art and THE GREAT GABBO is a newly restored print from THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Loads of extras, the Kino tradition in total quality -- a note from Stroheim on GABBO, pressbook material, radio broadcast material and much more.
