Waxworks (1924)
Directed by Leo Birinski
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
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At the same time—and unlike Caligari or Leni’s own Waxworks—it is also remarkably clean in its delineation of action.
Waxworks (1923), in which Leni atmospherically conjured up the nefarious exploits of Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper.
This story, set in 17th century England, was written by Victor Hugo , and made into one of the last (almost) silent films by Paul Leni, the director of "Waxworks" (1927) and "The Cat and the Canary" (1929).