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Line 14: budget = $217,000 \| }} '''''The Unknown''''' ([[1927 in film\|1927]]) is a [[silent film\|silent]] [[horror film]] [[film director\|directed]] by [[Tod Browning]] and featuring [[Lon Chaney, Sr.\|Lon Chaney]] as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and [[Joan Crawford]] as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry. Line 21 ⟶ 20: As with ''Freaks'', contemporary reviewers were sometimes less appreciative. "A visit to the dissecting room in a hospital would be quite as pleasant," opined the ''[[New York Evening Post]]'', "and at the same time more instructive." Modern viewers can discern the same macabre style of this film (and other Browning-Chaney collaborations) in later productions ranging from the 1930s [[Universal Studios]] horror films to the 1960s ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)\|Twilight Zone]]'' and ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' programs. ==Restoration== For many years the film was available only in an incomplete 9.5 mm copy, until a much higher quality 35 mm print was found preserved at the [[Cinematheque Francaise]] in 1968. In 1973, at a lecture given at [[George Eastman House]], Cinematheque Francaise director [[Henri Langlois]] said the delay in finding the print of ''The Unknown'' was because they had hundreds of film cans marked ''l'inconnu'' (French for "unknown") in their collection. Several scenes from the early part of the film are still missing, but these do not seriously affect the story continuity. ==Cast==