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Rex Ingram, MGM, 1926, from Somerset Maugham’s 1908 novel. Paul Wegener is Oliver Haddo, who finds a formula for making life and needs the blood of a virgin. Alice Terry, Ingram’s wife, is Margaret, a sculptor hurt while working on a faun; Iván Petrovich the surgeon who loves her. John F. Seitz photographed France and a tower. Haddo is Maugham’s Aleister Crowley sketch. Wegener, after The Golem, plays the hypnotist as a European import. Ingram shot abroad, away from Culver City. The laboratory is the last act.
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The Supernatural and the Occult
Maugham's Crowley sketch, played by the Golem. Wegener as Haddo, a hypnotist who needs a virgin's blood, and Ingram shooting France and a tower with Seitz. The laboratory is the last act. The ritual is filmed as if it might work.
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