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- Paul Leni's 1926 Short Rebus Film I
- Excerpt from Douglas Fairbank's The Thief of Bagdad
- Color Tinted
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 24, 2002
- Originally Released: 1922
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emil Jannings | |
Performer: | Conrad Veidt, William Dieterie & Werner Krauss | |
Directed by | Paul Leni | |
Art Direction by | Paul Leni | |
Story by | Henrik Galeen |
Description by OLDIES.com:
An idealistic young poet (Wilhelm Dieterle, later to become a Hollywood director) is hired to write stories about the Chamber of Horrors' three most notorious figures: Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Haroun Al-Raschid (Emil Jannings). But as the uncanny tales flow from the poet's pen, he finds himself enveloped in the nightmare worlds of his own creation.
One of the most innovative stylists of the German silent cinema, director Paul Leni (The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs) applied a variety of visual techniques to this ambitious anthology film, drawing from his years as a set designer under the great Max Reinhardt. From the fairy-tale Arabia of the Al-Raschid story (said to have inspired Douglas Fairbanks to make The Thief of Bagdad), to the dark and oppressive kingdom of Ivan the Terrible, to the whirling lights and swordlike shadows of the carnival through which Jack the Ripper stalks the protagonist, Leni managed to raise the techniques of German Expressionism to new conceptual heights.
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- Sales Rank: 128,100
- UPC: 738329025625
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