The Magician
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).
Plot
In the Latin Quarter of Paris, sculptor Margaret Dauncey is injured when the top of the huge statue of a faun she is working on breaks off and falls on her. After a successful surgery by Dr. Arthur Burdon saves her from paralysis, she and Burdon fall in love.
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author | Rex Ingram |
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contentLocation | Paris |
director | Rex Ingram |
editor | Grant Whytock |
genre | drama fantasy horror |
keywords | aleister crowley bibliothèque de l\'arsenal faun injured kill latin quarter library of the arsenal married monte carlo morning orgy search snake charmer snake charmers snake charming student of medicine true love wed young woman |
producer | Rex Ingram |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
theme | romantic drama |