I'd really like to know what inspired Tod Browning to think this was a sensible idea for a movie. "Well, there's a guy who pretends to have no arms... which is great because there's a girl who's SCARED OF ARMS." It doesn't really make a lick of sense, but who cares when you've got Joan Crawford and Lon Chaney in those two roles??
This is the first time I've seen Crawford acting in her youth, and she's great and preternaturally…