The Mad Genius

Infobox Film
name = The Mad Genius (1931)


producer =
director = Michael Curtiz
writer = Harvey Thew
based on the play "The Idol" (1929) by Martin Brown
starring = John Barrymore
Marian Marsh
Donald Cook
Charles Butterworth
Boris Karloff
Frankie Darro
Luis Alberni
Carmel Myers
music = David Mendoza conducting the Vitaphone Orchestra
cinematography = Barney McGill
editing = Ralph Dawson
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = 7 November 1931
runtime = 89 Minutes
language = English
country = USA
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0022103|

"The Mad Genius" (1931) is a drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, and in small roles, Boris Karloff and Frankie Darro. The film is based on the play "The Idol" (1929) by Martin Brown, which opened in Great Neck, New York but never opened on Broadway.

Warner Bros. was so pleased by the boxoffice returns for "Svengali" (1931), also starring Barrymore and Marsh, that they rushed "The Mad Genius" into production, and released it on 7 November 1931.

"The Mad Genius" tells the story of an itinerant puppeteer (Barrymore) running the life of a male ballet dancer (Cook), as opposed to "Svengali" where Svengali (Barrymore) ran the life of a female singer (Marsh).

Cast

* John Barrymore - Vladimar Ivan Tsarakov
* Marian Marsh - Nana Carlova
* Charles Butterworth - Karimsky
* Donald Cook - Fedor Ivanoff
* Luis Alberni - Sergei Bankieff
* Carmel Myers - Sonya Preskoya
* André Luguet - Count Robert Renaud (as Andre Luguet)
* Frankie Darro - Fedor as a Boy
* Boris Karloff - Fedor's Father (uncredited)

ee also

* Boris Karloff filmography

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022103 "The Mad Genius" at IMDB]