The Unholy Three

This film is a remake of the 1925 silent movie of the same name. Ventriloquist Professor Echo (Lon Chaney) tires of living off the small profits of petty theft and proposes to his fellow sideshow performers, Herman, who is known as the strong man, Hercules (Ivan Linow) and Willie, a dwarf billed as Tweedledee (Harry Earles), that they go far away, where they will never be found. Sometime later, the three have established new identities, along with Rosie (Lila Lee), a young pickpocket with whom Echo is in love, and Echo's gorilla, of which Hercules is mortally afraid. The pet shop they run and disguises they don provide a way for Echo and his cohorts to have access to the homes of wealthy clients who take delivery of parrots and other pets in his shop.