Talk:Tod Browning

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Sources

My sources include the IMDB, the Browning entry on the Silent Movie Page, and The Ringmaster...Tod Browning. There's also a short analysis of Browning's "Outside the Law" which I haven't had an opportunity to use yet but hope to (especially in regards to film technique). This list is as much for my own benefit, for continuing the unfinished entry, as for anyone else. - Gwalla 07:20, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Mystery of the Leaping Fish

Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) is a really weird short written by Tod Browing and starring Douglas Fairbanks Snr. Check it out on YouTube folks! Also look out for "Dark Carnival:The Secret World of Tod Browning" by David J. Skal & Elias Savada. MB-G 203.171.196.65 (talk) 07:53, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Universal may not have been wholly satisfied with Browning's Dracula but the movie was a major hit and for all intents and purposes kicked off what was soon to become known as the horror movie (and later, the horror genre). The main article does not make it clear what an enormous influence Browning's Dracula was, how it inspired the studio that produced it, Universal, to make Frankenstein, released later the same year (1931), which went on to enjoy even greater success. Dracula may not be the greatest of the Universal horrors but it's the one that "started it all".