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Black magic / Edward Small presents ; produced and directed by Gregory Ratoff.
LIBRA DVD PN1997 .B5335 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870--Film adaptations.
- Dumas, Alexandre.
- Magic--Drama.
- Magic.
- Hypnotists--Drama.
- Hypnotists.
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793--Drama.
- Marie Antoinette.
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Historical films.
- Romance films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Also known as: Cagliostro
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, CA : ClassicFlix, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full frame (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- After watching his gypsy parents executed by hanging for the alleged crime of sorcery, a young Joseph Balsamo is tortured mercilessly for the insolence of objecting to his parents' conviction. After a narrow escape from his captors, he vows revenge on the nobleman who sentenced his parents to death. Having honed his skills as a charmer through his teen years and into adulthood, Joseph now dons the name Cagliostro and becomes a famous sorcerer throughout Europe earning wealth, fame, and privilege. His misadventures culminate in a bit of palace intrigue with a plot against Queen Marie Antoinette whose exact double is under Cagliostro's spell and is helpless to be his instrument in usurping the throne of France. Despite having helmed such cinematic triumphs as Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, the legendary Orson Welles often had trouble acquiring directorial assignments throughout his career. Many of Welles' film projects were independent ones financed by acting he did in other directors' pictures. The 1949 production of Black Magic is just such an assignment as Welles used the proceeds to make his version of Shakespeare's Othello (1951).
- Participant:
- Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Stephen Bekassy, Valentina Cortese, Margot Grahame, Frank Latimore, Gregory Gaye, Berry Kroeger, Robert Atkins, Charles Goldner, Raymond Burr.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Based on the novel "Joseph Balsamo" by Alexander Dumas.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
- OCLC:
- 1348699046
- Publisher Number:
- 851968007699
- CF-0028DVD ClassicFlix
- CF0028 ClassicFlix
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