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Time Out says

Adapted from the Somerset Maugham novel inspired by the life of Aleister Crowley, a bizarre melodrama which starts in Paris and moves to the Riviera: the sinister Dr Haddo (Wegener) uses hypnotism to kidnap a young woman (Terry) on the eve of her wedding, because he needs the blood from a virgin's heart to complete the formula for a homunculus. Ingram's strengths were mainly pictorial, and he here delivers plenty of high-flown images. Best of all is the sequence in which Haddo transports his victim into a Bosch-like vision and hands her over to a naked satyr for his nameless pleasures. Of great historical interest as the missing link between German expressionism and Hollywood fantasy. Michael Powell worked on it as assistant director.
Written by TR

Release Details

  • Duration:77 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Rex Ingram
  • Screenwriter:Rex Ingram
  • Cast:
    • Paul Wegener
    • Ivan Petrovich
    • Alice Terry
    • Firmin Gémier
    • Gladys Hamer
    • Stowitts
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