The Mad Magician
3D THRILL! Fuel for the human bonfire!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 3, 2012
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vincent Price, Eva Gabor, Donald Randolph, Mary Murphy & John Emery | |
Performer: | Lenita Lane, Patrick O'Neal & Jay Novello | |
Directed by | John Brahm | |
Edited by | Grant Whytock | |
Screenwriting by | Crane Wilbur | |
Screenplay by | Crane Wilbur | |
Composition by | Arthur Lange & Emil Newman | |
Cinematography by | Bert Glennon | |
Story by | Crane Wilbur | |
Produced by | Bryan Foy | |
Director of Photography: | Bert Glennon |
Entertainment Reviews:
66%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 397
Overly complicated and under-developed, this stock horror has its moments of invention...
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Rating: B --
A delightfully villainous Vincent.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Legendary horror star Vincent Price is at his terrifying best as Gallico the Great, an inspired inventor of magic acts who longs to perform his creations himself. When he finally gets his chance, the production is closed by Gallico's cruel manager, who wants a rival magician to perform Gallico's greatest trick, The Lady and the Buzz Saw. An enraged Gallico turns into a homicidal maniac, taking out his victims with the same methods he used to create his illusions. Newly remastered.
Product Description:
Vincent Price turns on his usual terrifying charm in the role of a homicidal magician in THE MAD MAGICIAN, a satisfying thriller that was originally shown in 3-D. The actor best known for the luster he brought to many horror films stars as Gallico the Great, an inventor of magic acts who yearns to be the star of his own show. On the night of his first performance, he is shut down by his cruel manager Ormond (Donald Randolph) -- who wants to use Gallico's ingenious buzzsaw act for the famed magician Rinaldi (John Emery). Added to the knowledge that the wealthy Ormond had already stolen his wife Claire (Eva Gabor), Gallico goes mad and decapitates his tormentor with the buzzsaw. After a great sequence in which Ormond's head takes a mistaken trip with Gallico's assistant Karen (Mary Murphy) and her detective boyfriend Bruce (Patrick O'Neal), Gallico disguises himself as Ormond and rents an apartment with a mystery author (Lenita Lane). He manages to dispose of the body in another amusing scene, but he must kill again when Claire confronts him in his Ormond disguise. The author identifies Ormond as her killer and Gallico appears to be off the hook -- until Rinaldi appears with designs on stealing Gallico's latest trick: a crematorium illusion. Naturally, the illusion becomes reality and Rinaldi is burned to a crisp. Disguising himself as Rinaldi and taking over the magician's successful show, Gallico continues to fool the law until Bruce matches fingerprints from Rinaldi (who is really Gallico) to those of Ormond. Meanwhile, the author, realizing that the Ormond who stayed in her house was really Gallico, gathers Karen and the detective for a fiery confrontation.
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- Sales Rank: 33,583
- UPC: 043396404953
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