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Waxworks (1924) 5/9

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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2008

Directed by: Paul Leni & Leo Birinski

Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible
Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack
William Dieterle - The Poet

The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions: the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also referred to, confusingly, as Jack the Ripper in the film, although the two are not one and the same).

An intriguing example of German Expressionism.

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  • In every film. :)

  • Conrad Veidt is just extraordinary in this film!

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  • Beautiful color

  • vive la femme!

  • Segment three is the most flattering of the baker's wife so far. scene for the most exciting thus far. ive not yet finished five. Four was the most action packed.

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