Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/The Unholy Three (1925 film)
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File: The Unholy Three.webm
Author: Tod Browning
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Year: 1925
PD: PD/US|1962
Note: A 1925 American silent crime melodrama film involving a trio of circus conmen. It is adapted from Tod Robbins's novel The Unholy Three (1917).
Cat: Crime film, Drama film, Silent film
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ARS GRATIA ARTIS
TRADE MARK
Metro, Goldwyn, Mayer
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LOUIS B. MAYER
Presents
Lon Chaney
IN
Tod Browning's Production
The UNHOLY THREE
COPYRIGHT MCMXXV IN U.S.A BY
METRO-GOLDWYN PICTURES CORPORATION
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF BUENOS AIRES
CONTROLLED BY LOEW'S INCORPORATED
00:11
Directed by
Tod Browning
Produced by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Corporation
Released through
Metro-Goldwyn
Distributing Corporation
00:17
| Story By Tod Robbins |
Scenario by Waldemar Young |
| Settings by Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Wright | |
| Photography by David Kesson |
Edited by Daniel Gray |
00:29
The Players
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Echo, The Ventriloquist
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Lon Chaney |
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Rosie O'Grady
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Mae Busch |
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Hector McDonald
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|
Matt Moore |
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Hercules
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Victor McLaglen |
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Tweedledee
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Harry Earles |
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Regan
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Matthew Betz |
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Judge
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Edward Connelly |
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Attorney for Defense
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William Humphreys |
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Prosecuting Attorney
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A. E. Warren |
00:52
Passed by
The National Board of Review
00:57
'Twas a balmy summer evening,
And a goodly crowd was there.
01:09
CHOLMONDELAY
01:12
Veronica
The Tattooed ???
01:14
ELSA
01:23
Ella
THIMATE TWINS
Ruth
01:28
DON'T MISS THE CIRCUS […]
01:35
HERCULES
01:39
"Hercules! The mighty … marvelous … mastodonic model of muscular masculinity!"
02:06
"Never smoke cigarettes and you'll be a big strong man like him."
02:37
Prof. Echo
Ventriloquist
02:46
"Professor Echo! God's gifted genius! The velvet-voiced ventriloquist!"
03:02
"Nemo, how would you like to walk over to my house and have a drink?"
03:16
"Why walk? Let's run!"
03:23
Sweet Rosie O'Grady.
03:43
"That's all there is to life, friends—a little laughter … a little tear …"
04:00
"This dollar pamphlet contains one thousand wheezes and jokes—a guaranteed tonic for dull care! The price is ten cents—one dime!"
04:13
Little Egypt
The
Worlds Greatest
Artist
04:31
"Now folks—that's just a sample of the little lady's art! The show on the inside starts immediately!"
04:46
"See her do the dance that broke the Sultan's thermometer!"
05:36
"You're there, Rosie—the best pal a guy ever had!"
05:47
"And tonight when we eat, I'm goin' to buy you a swell steak!"
06:16
"I just couldn't hold out on you, Echo. You're too square a guy!"
06:31
"I'm glad you done that, Rosie. Money got that way never done no one no good!"
06:51
TWEEDLEDEE
HEIGHT 26in WEIGHT 36lb
07:02
"Tweedledee! Twenty inches! Twenty years! Twenty pounds! The Twentieth Century Curiosity!"
07:19
"The Demi-Tasse Daddy."
07:25
"Fools!"
08:11
NO SMOKING
08:22
Midnight
08:46
"You see, my plan is so ridiculous … so simple … that it scares you."
09:05
"But … if you come with me, we'll clean up millions."
09:25
"It's spooky! It sounds … unholy!"
09:34
"That's it!"
09:38
"We'll be the Unholy Three!"
09:56
The day before Christmas—
10:02
O'GRADY'S BIRD STORE
10:19
Donkey's
10:26
"And how is Hector McDonald, my Grandma's little parrot seller?"
10:48
"Don't let her tease you, Hector."
11:05
"Little Willie darling heard your voice. He wants you to take him bye-bye."
11:45
"You're just an old darling, Hector. I won't tease you any more."
12:34
"You're makin' a play for that guy!"
12:47
"Since when do you own me?"
13:02
"If you tip that boob off to who we are, I'll lay some lilies under your chin!"
13:17
"Da-da! Da-da!"
14:04
"If you don't stop yelling, you'll tip him off yourself."
14:44
"I'll get Mrs. O'Grady."
15:14
"I think you'd better show the parrots. They talk so well for you."
15:44
Echo, the ventriloquist, could make wooden dummies talknow watch the jolly parrots!
15:52
PRETTY POLLY
15:54
GOOD MORNING AUNTY
15:58
PRETTY POLLY
16:00
PRETTY LADY!
16:02
PRETTY LADY!
16:04
PRETTY LADY!
16:12
"Isn't it wonderful how the parrots always talk to your Grandma?"
16:57
"That house, where you called about the parrot, was robbed last night."
17:28
"This is Mr. Arlington. The parrot you sold me doesn't talk."
17:47
"Here's another parrot that won't talk."
18:16
"All right, I'll come over. I'm sure when the bird sees me it will fell more at home."
18:53
"The lady from the bird store, Mr. Arlington."
19:38
"May I leave him here? He might cry if he sees the"
19:49
"B"
"I"
"R"
"D."
21:52
"Take mine, darling—and Granny will get you some red beads just like those."
22:16
"He's always been so fond of beads!"
22:33
Christmas Eve
23:03
"—and then, Echo says to me 'Granny will get you some red beads just like those'!"
23:20
"Yes, and before morning Granny will have those pretty red beads."
24:28
"Hector's out there with a Christmas tree for little Willie."
24:51
"Didn't I order you to stay away from that guy?"
25:06
"I wasn't with him! I met him on the corner headed for here!"
25:44
"Wait for me in the kitchen."
26:39
"You go back to bed, Mrs. O'Grady. Rosie and I will trim the tree."
27:21
"Get trim of him! We're gonna pull that Arlington job tonight."
27:52
"Oh, I'm mad at Granny! She won't stay in bed!"
28:01
"Perhaps she wants to help us trim the tree."
28:15
"Yes, she'd love to do some trimming."
28:28
"That guy bossin' me … me and my strength!"
29:14
"He's too jealous to leave her with that boob. Come on … we'll turn this trick alone!"
29:33
"I've a secret I want you to share. I'm going to ask Rosie to marry me."
29:59
"But I'm not going to give her the ring until tomorrow."
30:29
"You and your strength! You're yellow, you big stiff … or you'd come with me."
30:54
"You heard me! You're yellow!"
31:44
JOHN ARLINGTON MURDERED
IN HOME BY JEWEL THIEVES
BANKER'S THREE YEAR' OLD
DAUGHTER IS BADLY HURT;
IN PRECARIOUS CONDITION
Mysterious Assassins Invade Park Avenue
Home After Midnight—Kill Prominent
Philantropist, Injure Child. Escape With
$100,000 Without Leaving No Clue
32:23
"'Oh, spare my life', said Mr. Arlington, 'spare my life'!"
32:48
"Youfilth!"
33:09
"Don't you realize that you've murdered a man?"
33:21
"That's why I said we'd never carry a gun!"
33:48
"Was there anybody beside yourselves knew the rubies were here in the house?"
34:05
"There was an old woman from a bird store who saw the rubies."
34:42
"If you don't want to part of these, because of how we got 'em … then me and the Kid will take 'em."
35:02
"You're gonna put 'em back in the safe with the rest of our stuff!"
36:25
"I'm from Police Headquarters."
37:08
"Oh, yes. Isn't it terrible? Mr. Arlington was one of my best customers."
37:23
"You were at Mr. Arlington's home yesterday, weren't you?"
37:39
"Did the man you saw with Mr. Arlington look as if he would commit such a crime?"
38:11
"The reason I ask is because sometimes the least little thing gives us a clue."
39:11
"Cow! Cow! Cow!"
39:51
"I hate to see anybody tease a baby."
40:45
"I don't like to take his toys from him. Let's finish our talk in the store."
41:33
"You sold a parrot to Mr. Arlington. Who delivered it?"
42:29
"Oh! So you delivered it yourself? You forget easy, don't you?"
42:41
"So long. I'll see you later."
43:35
"That dick has a line on uswe gotta think fast!"
43:49
"He's got a hunch Hector turned this trick. Let's plant the jewels in the boob's room!"
44:03
"That's it! Make him the fall guy!"
44:17
"That's what we hired him for, isn't it … in case we got in a jam?"
44:29
Christmas night
44:54
"Don't you think my savings are enough for us to start on?"
45:28
"If I loved a man, he wouldn't have to have a dime!"
45:42
"Oh! If you loved a man!"
46:01
"Then why have you let me go on hoping?"
46:22
"Aw, I've just been kidding!"
49:08
"Oh, Hector, I tried so hard not to let you know I love you"
49:28
"I've been a crook … a pick-pocket!"
49:40
"But you're not going to be any more."
50:05
"I did some pretty bad thing myself … when I was young."
51:01
"Gee, but you've made this a great Christmas, Rosie."
51:54
"Gee, but you've made this a great Christmas, Rosie!"
52:19
"Ain't you the kidder?"
52:30
"No, Echo, I'm on the level. I love him!"
52:42
"Thanks."
52:55
"What are you going to do?"
53:20
"You'll find out soon enough!"
53:40
"Extry! Extry! Arlington murderer arrested!"
53:48
ARLINGTON MURDERER ARRESTED
54:03
"What a bonehead I was to overlook that!"
54:19
McDonald's alibi, that he was
at Mrs. O'Grady's bird store, will
be investigated by the police.
54:34
"That means more investigation—but there ain't goin' to be no Mrs. O'Grady when they get here!"
54:56
"Yes there is goin' to be a Mrs. O'Grady—that dick saw me here"
55:24
"You guys can get out of your make-up … but I can't! And I ain't going to the chair alone."
55:48
"And neither is Hector McDonald going to the chair!"
55:58
"Now, lough that off … you big stiff!"
56:10
"What are you going to do?"
56:21
"You'll find out soon enough!"
56:55
"Regan in on his way to O'Grady's bird store."
58:01
"Here's one thing stronger than you … and I might need him."
59:03
It was Spring before the grim machinery of the law worked around to the case of Hector McDonald.
59:48
"Does the defendant's attorney intend to produce the alleged witnesses, Mrs. O'Grady and her grand-daughter?"
1:00:04
"We're making every effort to locate them."
1:00:24
While in a secluded cabin in the mountains
1:00:45
"In his prison cell he sits."
1:02:46
"How about just us two dividin' the stuff?"
1:03:33
"Maybe I got a better plan."
1:03:57
"You can save him, Echo. And, if you will, I'll stick with you. I'll never see Hector again."
1:04:13
"Yes! You'd stick with me … but you'd go on loving him."
1:04:35
"and the minute he's free, you'd double-cross me and go back to him."
1:05:02
"Don't you understand … I'll do anything to save him! I love him, Echo … I love him."
1:05:28
"I'd even take that from you."
1:06:28
"After that, you don't want to change your mind about sticking with me?"
1:06:57
He would always have Rosie … if he saved Hector. This was the thought that took Echo secretly to the city.
1:08:39
"Your Honor, I object! He is mis-stating the evidence!"
1:08:47
"Objection over-ruled!"
1:10:15
Have your lawyer put
you back on the witness stand.
When you get there keep repeating
the Lord's prayer. move your lips
But don't utter a sound. Have
faith in miracles.
Mrs. O'Grady.
1:10:49
"It's Mrs. O'Grady's handwriting … and she's not here!"
1:11:37
"Your Honor, may the defendant take the stand again to give new evidence?"
1:12:00
"In a case so serious as his, with a man's life at stake, the court cannot reasonably deny your request."
1:12:57
"Speak louder!"
1:13:15
"You Honor, and gentlemen of the jury"
1:13:37
"There was an old woman who was a manand two others—the Unholy Three"
1:13:56
"First, it was an old woman and her grand-daughter! Now, the old woman is a man! What next?"
1:14:52
"That wasn't me talking! I didn't say a world!"
1:15:28
"and it must be remembered that the defense has failed to produce a single witness to confirm the prisoner's story!"
1:16:12
"You mean … you want me to go with you?"
1:16:26
"There's a fortune for just us two to split. What do you say?"
1:19:12
"Do you think he's guilty? Will he get the chair?"
1:20:41
"I'm Echo, the ventriloquist … Grandma O'Grady of the 'Unholy Three'!"
1:21:35
"Your Honor, I want to make a full confession!"
1:21:52
The Law can be kind … And Echo's confession won freedom for both himself and Hector.
1:22:05
May 6
Dear Hector:
I'll never see you
again — — I can't
explain — — but always
remember I love you,
Hector — I love you.
Good-Bye;
Rosie
1:22:31
"Echo, you remember what I promised if you saved Hector?"
1:22:50
"Well …… I'm here."
1:23:14
"Aw, what's the use of us kiddin', Rosie. We don't love each other. You run along to Hector."
1:23:36
"Do you really mean that, Echo?"
1:24:06
"Good-by, old Pal."
1:24:18
PROF. ECHO
VENTRILOQUIST
1:25:29
"That's all there is to life, friends … a little laughter … a little tear—"
1:25:53
The End