This is the one in which Erich von Stroheim plays the crazy ventriloquist controlled by his dummy. He's "The Great Gabbo" and, as befits Mr von Stroheim, he's completely over the top but then OTT was what made him famous, in film and in life. The movie itself is entertaining enough, even if it goes down the musical-comedy route and isn't the chiller we might have expected. Betty Compson is fine as the girl Gabbo is in love with and who drives him to even greater levels of distraction than he might otherwise have reached.
Review of The Great Gabbo
