Waxworks
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Rating:
NR-
Language:
Ger Studio:
KinoUPC:
738329025625Year of Release:
1924Item Number:
KOV002562Release Date:
10/05/2004Genre:
Costume Horror –
Foreign Films –
Horror
Format:
DVD
MOVIE DESCRIPTION:
German filmmaker Paul Leni functioned as both director and production designer for the Caligariesque Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett). Using a wax museum as the unifying factor, Leni weaves three separate stories of Evil Incarnate. Emil Jannings stars as middle-Eastern despot Harroun al Raschid; Conrad Veidt is cast as Ivan the Terrible; and Werner Krauss impersonates Jack the Ripper. Of the three, Ivan is perhaps the most odious, especially in his sadistic cat-and-mouse treatment of his victims (it is said that Russian director Sergei Eisenstein patterned his Ivan the Terrible after Veidt's). On the strength of this film, Leni was invited to Hollywood by Universal's Carl Laemmle, and the result was the classic "old dark house" meller The Cat and the Canary. Sadly, most surviving prints of Waxworks are taken from the watered-down, expurgated American released version. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD FEATURES:
- Number of Discs: 1
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
- Features:
- Paul Leni's 1926 short Rebus Film
- Excerpt from Douglas Fairbanks's The Thief of Bagdad
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Cast:
Conrad VeidtDirector:
Paul Leni
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