The Unholy Three (1930 film)

The Unholy Three is a 1930 American PreCode melodrama involving a crime spree, directed by Jack Conway and starring Lon Chaney. The film is a remake of the 1925 film of the same name, with both movies based on the novel The Unholy Three, by Clarence Aaron Tod Robbins.

A sideshow is closed by the police after Tweedledee Harry Earles, the embittered Twenty Inch Man, kicks a baby, starting a riot. Echo, the ventriloquist, proposes that Tweedledee, the strongman Hercules Ivan Linow, and he leave and, as The Unholy Three, use their talents to commit crimes. Echo also takes along his pickpocket girlfriend Rosie Lila Lee and his gorilla, whom Hercules fears.Echo disguises himself as Mrs. OGrady, a kindly old grandmother who runs a pet shop. Tweedledee pretends to be her baby grandson, and Hercules her soninlaw. They use the information they gain from their wealthier patrons to rob them. Echo is the leader and brains behind the outfit, but his bossy ways leave the other two resentful. Meanwhile, the shops clerk, Hector McDonald Elliott Nugent, falls in love with Rosie. ........

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