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The Magician
Director:
Rex Ingram
(Dir)
Release Date:
24 Oct 1926
Duration (in feet):
6,960
Duration (in reels):
7
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Cast:
Alice Terry
(Margaret Dauncey)
Paul Wegener
(Oliver Haddo)
Ivan Petrovich
(Dr. Arthur Burdon)
Firmin Gemier
(Dr. Porhoet)
Gladys Hamer
(Susie Boud)
Summary:
Oliver Haddo, a student of the occult, demonstrates on numerous occasions his powers of magic and after years of search finds a formula in a Paris library for the creation of human life. Margaret Dauncey, the niece of Dr. Porhoet, is a sculpture student and is injured while working on a huge faun. Dr. Arthur Burdon, a noted American surgeon, performs a delicate operation on her spine before many famous doctors, including Haddo; and during her convalescence, Margaret and Dr. Burdon become romantically involved. By trickery Haddo gains entrance to Margaret's apartment and puts her under a hypnotic spell. Burdon follows them to Monte Carlo, but she is irretrievably under Haddo's power. In the Sorcerer's Tower, Haddo is about to extract her virgin blood for his secret formula, when Burdon and Dr. Porhoet arrive and overcome him; Haddo falls into a fiery furnace, and the tower is destroyed, freeing Margaret from the spell.
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Director:
Rex Ingram
(Dir)
Writer:
Rex Ingram
(Adpt)
Photography:
John F. Seitz
(Dir of photog)
Film Editor:
Grant Whytock
(Film ed)
Country:
United States
Source Text:
Based on the novel
The Magician
by W. Somerset Maugham (London, 1908).
Authors:
W. Somerset Maugham
Copyright Claimant
Copyright Date
Copyright Number
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
19/10/1926
dd/mm/yyyy
LP23232
Physical Properties:
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Genre:
Melodrama
Melodrama
Fantasy
Subjects (Major):
Hypnotism
Libraries and librarians
Magicians
Monte Carlo (Monaco)
Spiritualism
Paris (France)
Sculptors
Surgeons
Note:
Filmed in actual locales in France. Copyrighted as 8 reels.
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