The Magician (1926)

Directed by

Rex Ingram

Genre

fantasy film, horror film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A magician tries to get a young woman's blood for experiments to create life. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, this is a silent fantasy horror film.

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What happens

The Magician is a 1926 American silent fantasy horror film directed by Rex Ingram about a magician's efforts to acquire the blood of a maiden for his experiments to create life. It was adapted by Ingram from the 1908 novel The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham. It stars Alice Terry (the director's wife), Paul Wegener and Iván Petrovich. Critic Carlos Clarens wrote that it was "perhaps the most elusive of lost films." However, since the time Clarens wrote this, various prints of the film have surfaced. Some have screened at independent movie festivals from 1993 onwards, and the film has also been shown on Turner Classic Movies. It remained commercially unavailable until being released on DVD in the Warner Brothers Archive Collection in 2011 (with a running time of 88 minutes). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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