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.

Waxworks (1924) BDRIP 576p x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
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Language(s):English Intertitles
Subtitles:None

The post Leo Birinsky & Paul Leni – Das Wachsfigurenkabinett AKA Waxworks (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

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In theory the Lon Chaney silent blockbusters of Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and Phantom of the Opera (1925) may be considered the foundational building blocks of what eventually turned into the quote-unquote Universal Horror Movie, but in practice it’s Paul Leni’s run from 1927-9 with The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, and The Last Warning (which James Whale himself claimed as a primary influence) which laid down the visual and narrative-tonal DNA. The meticulous attention to art direction and camera set-ups, the gothic essence warped with expressionist flairs here and there, the tongue in cheek approach… it’s really Paul Leni who kicked Universal into those critical last gears away from the more anonymous, more level and flatly melodramatic mise en scene and execution of the Chaney epics to the shadowy Germanic sensibility combined with great fun and lusciously eerie eye-candy. Though not as well known as his other two German silent-era imports– Lang and Murnau– Paul Leni’s impact reverberates on cinema to this day quite profoundly via his effect on Universal.

The Cat and the Canary was Leni’s first film for Carl Laemmle (who brought the portly, jolly director over to the US after being bowled over by the magnificent Waxworks) and it was a great success for Universal. In it his masterful melding of the tenets of American narrative filmmaking with his own very playful, yet visually sinister, style, jumps out fully formed. Taking the ‘old dark house’ genre (which by that time was already old hat on the stage as well as in the cinema) and and pumping it full of sly invention and virtuoso camerawork, Leni created a film that was pure delight. His partnership with Gilbert Warrenton yeilded, via the irresistable setups and camera movements, fantastic results… such a shame that Leni died, like his countryman Murnau, so young, and so needlessly. One can only wonder what Might Have Been….

The.Cat.and.the.Canary.1927.BDRIP.MoC.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English Intertitles

The post Paul Leni – The Cat and the Canary (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner’s daughter in the stories.

1.76GB | 1h 20mn | 764×576 | mkv

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Language:English Intertitles
Subtitles:French hardsubbed

The post Leo Birinsky & Paul Leni – Das Wachsfigurenkabinett AKA Waxworks (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured into a permanent grin. The son can only make a living as a travelling circus clown – The Laughing Man!

2.65GB | 1 h 50 min | 688×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0B2FB130B2B4F0A/The.Man.Who.Laughs.1928.BDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

Language(s):Silent with English intertitles
Subtitles:None

The post Paul Leni – The Man Who Laughs (1928) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.”

1.33GB | 1h 11mn | 1280×720 | mkv

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Language:German intertitles
Subtitles:English,Spanish

The post Paul Leni – Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart aka The Diary of Dr. Hart (1916) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDb wrote:
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

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Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon’s 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centers on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim’s body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theater is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new “producer” arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew. As one of the last silents Universal produced, The Last Warning was later released as a “part-talkie” with roughly sixty feet of sound scenes added.

1.49GB | 1 h 18 min | 768×576 | mkv

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Language:Silent
Subtitles:English intertitles

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