Waxworks Films Sans Frontieres

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

Films sans frontières (Firm)

Language:

German

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 23 min., 14 sec)) sound

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2016

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Films Sans Frontieres, [1924]

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Directed by Paul Leni. The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look athe owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself. In the first, he is a baker, married to the girl, who is a little bit too much flirting with the customers, among them the wezir of sultan Harun Al-Rashid, who has just ordered his execution because the smell from the bakery is drifting to his palce, yet Harun Al-Rashid wants to meet the beautiful girl himself, while an angry baker is trying to get the Sultan's whishing ring to proof he's not a weakling... The second story is about Tzar Ivan the Terrible who likes watching people die together with his court-chemist. When he orders the execution of the chemist, the chemist thinks of a nice revanche, but till the revanche works, a nobleman is murdered, his daughter kidnapped by Ivan and her groom tortured. While writing the third story about Jack the Ripper, he falls asleep and dreams he and the girl are pursuit by that serial killer. Featuring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Wilhelm Dieterle. Country of production: Germany. (With English subtitles.) Also released as Das Wachsfigurenkabinett. Some World Cinema titles may contain mature themes or content. Viewer discretion is advised

Contents:

Waxworks (23:14);

Notes:

Originally released by Films Sans Frontieres, 1924

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2016

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1143506061

Publisher Number:

57042 Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license