Taped this picture on the late-late-late movie channel on the NY TV stations and have never seen it again. John Barrymore(Tsarakov) plays a crippled, half-mad puppeteer, who yearns to dance. Upon saving the young boy Fedor(Frankie Darro) from his foster father's (Boris Karloff) abuse, he recognizes the youth's ability and hopes to make him a famous dancer. Karloff's role was very minor, and he did not reappear after the opening sequence. There was a mention of Frankenstein in the script where it refers about a Golem fashioned from mud and given a human soul and is asked by Tsarakov " Frankenstein's man? John Barrymore dominates the entire screen, but they still need Karloff to bring the 193l audiences into the movie houses.
Review of The Mad Genius
