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Waxworks (1924) 6/9

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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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  • Veidt is amazing. *sigh*

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  • I love everybody's hats in this section.

  • The translator tried, but still "батюшка" doesn't mean "Little Father"

  • The baker's wife showed such cunning and much wisdom. Further she showed she really loved her husband when she could have easily let him die.

  • that guy reminds me of mr hyde

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