Monday January 12, 7:00pm, Paramount Theater, Seattle
A young artist falls in love with the surgeon who cures her paralysis following a horrible accident, but a mad scientist hypnotizes, then abducts her just as she and the surgeon are about to be married.
Loosely based on Somerset Maugham's 1908 novel, The Magician (1926) stars Alice Terry as beautiful but timid Margaret Dauncey. Oliver Haddo, played with evil intensity by renowned German horror star Paul Wegener, is obsessed with creating human life by use of an ancient, stolen formula and imprisons Margaret in his mountaintop laboratory as part of the sinister plan.
While considered something of a disappointment by director Rex Ingram, The Magician contains both frightening and beautiful imagery with a satisfying if rudimentary plot. Great attention to detail can be seen throughout the film, which includes spectacular location shoots in Paris and the Maritime Alps. Even in mediocrity, Ingram was vastly superior to nearly everyone else.
A young artist falls in love with the surgeon who cures her paralysis following a horrible accident, but a mad scientist hypnotizes, then abducts her just as she and the surgeon are about to be married.
Loosely based on Somerset Maugham's 1908 novel, The Magician (1926) stars Alice Terry as beautiful but timid Margaret Dauncey. Oliver Haddo, played with evil intensity by renowned German horror star Paul Wegener, is obsessed with creating human life by use of an ancient, stolen formula and imprisons Margaret in his mountaintop laboratory as part of the sinister plan.
While considered something of a disappointment by director Rex Ingram, The Magician contains both frightening and beautiful imagery with a satisfying if rudimentary plot. Great attention to detail can be seen throughout the film, which includes spectacular location shoots in Paris and the Maritime Alps. Even in mediocrity, Ingram was vastly superior to nearly everyone else.