![]() ![]() Little does he know that the loving couple are in the midst of an argument with the dutiful lady unhappy at her boring life and her spouse desperate to prove his worth.Īs the husband goes off to steal the magic ring owned by the Caliph the sovereign himself shows up to unwontedly woo the wronged woman. Informing the lustful and larger than life Caliph of this hidden beauty the ruler decides to take her for himself setting off for the bakers home. Beginning in Baghdad we see the story of how the Caliph lost his arm meeting a baker and his delightful looking wife who catches the eye of the Grand Vizier. The job for the inventive scribe is to create backstories for each of the three exhibits and the young man sets straight to it casting himself, Eva and the old man in all of his fantastical tales. ![]() Meeting the owner and his daughter Eva (Olga Belajeff) he sees the striking figures on display including Caliph Harun al-Rashid (Fausts Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Casablanca’s Conrad Veidt) and Spring Heeled Jack (The Cabinet of Dr. The set up is superb as a fresh faced poet played by William Dieterle finds himself at a fair and spotting a sign in front of the waxworks museum for a writer, he journeys inside. The Masters of Cinema Series has often offered the amazing opportunity to experience horror films throughout the history of cinema and with its release of the 1924 silent classic Waxworks they have added another example ripe for discovery by amateur horror historians.Īn anthology by one of the greats from the period Paul Leni, Waxworks is his final movie made in Germany before he was invited by Universal’s Carl Laemmle to come to Hollywood where he filmed his most famous works The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, and The Last Warning. ![]()
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