The Show

The ShowLionel Barrymore and John Gilbert star in this disturbing melodrama of the unlikely love story surrounding a Budapest sideshow. Cock Robin (Gilbert) is the swaggering spieler of a Hungarian "freak show" known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a grotesque reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of John the Baptist. The actress playing Salome (Renee Adoree) is the "kept woman" of the troupe's

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From ballroom to boudoir to guillotine

she finds the means to get them back when Loyal Muke (Blake) stumbles into the bar

where two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford (an early-career Kim Basinger)

wilder days and now runs a town populated by outlaws

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Applauded for its tight stories and medical accuracy (not really)

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