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Waxworks concludes with a somewhat rushed and haphazard final act, which involves our writer and his romantic interest stalked by Jack the Ripper via a montage of mesmersizing overlaying shots through the city and its various attractions. Veidt’s enigmatic performance gives this second chapter of Waxworks a subtle vibe of the horrifying, in addition to the slightly warped and exaggerated Russian orthodox sets and imagery, perhaps a result of Ivan’s madness which lingers playfully behind his eyes. However, his fractured and paranoid mind sows the seeds of his doom before embarking on a social rampage at the wedding of a nobleman’s daughter. Moving on to the most twisted of waxed individuals, Ivan the Terrible, played by the magnificent Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs), leads the audiences into the dungeon of 16 th century Russia where we find the depraved Mr.

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Despite being rather silly in tone, the theatrics of silent film actiing are on full display as our character’s chase each other around maze-like sets with our hero played by William Dieterle performing some daring stunts along the way. An impromptu demand for Assad’s head quickly turns into a frivolous pursuit of the baker’s beautiful wife by the oafish Caliph.

Harun al-Rashid marks the beginning of this three-act feature, with a slight of misfortune as a lowly baker, Assad, unknowingly interrupts a game of chess between the titular fifth Abbasid Caliph and his advisors. Our freelance writer happily accepts and eagerly puts pen to paper, inserting himself and the owner’s daughter into these colour fantasies, because why wouldn’t you? In need of some creative flair for his life-like exhibits, the owner of a wax museum at Luna Park (strange coincidence) hires a writer to give each of his sculptures a story. Waxworks is a light anthology piece that displays unbridled imagination and the most elaborately creative set-design released on Blu-ray last November via duel-format edition, spine number FA0072. It’s a pleasure to be reviewing another title from Flicker Alley, following up on my coverage of Paul Leni’s The Last Warning and The Man Who Laughs in 2019, with an earlier classic from the silent film auteur.