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A 1926 silent horror film directed by Rex Ingram.
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A 1926 silent horror film directed by Rex Ingram.
Ingram, based on the 1908 novel of the same name by Creator/WSomersetMaugham.
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Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is a young woman in Paris who has already achieved success as a sculptor. One day her latest {{sculpture|s}}, a massive statue of a faun she is carving in clay, cleaves apart under its own weight and falls on her. She suffers a severe spinal injury. Luckily, visiting American surgeon Dr. Arthur Burdon is there in Paris and is able to operate on Margaret and save her from paralysis. He falls in love with his beautiful patient and, after she is discharged from the hospital, they get engaged.
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Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is a young woman in Paris who has already achieved success as a sculptor.{{sculptor|s}}. One day her latest {{sculpture|s}}, a massive statue of a faun she is carving in clay, cleaves apart under its own weight and falls on her. She suffers a severe spinal injury. Luckily, visiting American surgeon Dr. Arthur Burdon is there in Paris and is able to operate on Margaret and save her from paralysis. He falls in love with his beautiful patient and, after she is discharged from the hospital, they get engaged.
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* BoundAndGagged: Margaret as Haddo prepares to take her blood.
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Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is a young woman in Paris who has already achieved success as a sculptor. One day her latest sculpture, a massive statue of a faun she is carving in clay, cleaves apart under its own weight and falls on her. She suffers a severe spinal injury. Luckily, visiting American surgeon Dr. Arthur Burdon is there in Paris and is able to operate on Margaret and save her from paralysis. He falls in love with his beautiful patient and, after she is discharged from the hospital, they get engaged.
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Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is a young woman in Paris who has already achieved success as a sculptor. One day her latest sculpture, {{sculpture|s}}, a massive statue of a faun she is carving in clay, cleaves apart under its own weight and falls on her. She suffers a severe spinal injury. Luckily, visiting American surgeon Dr. Arthur Burdon is there in Paris and is able to operate on Margaret and save her from paralysis. He falls in love with his beautiful patient and, after she is discharged from the hospital, they get engaged.
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* AntagonistTitle: The student of the dark arts of the title is its villain.
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Unluckily, one Oliver Haddo is among the med students observing the operation on Margaret. Haddo, described as a "Hypnotist, magician, and student of medicine", is studying medicine, not to really become a doctor, but to assist in his dark experiments in alchemy. Haddo in fact wants to "create life" through an alchemical ritual that requires, among other things, "the heart's blood of a maiden". He finds his victim in Margaret. Soon he has used his hypnotic powers to get Margaret to marry him and go away with him. Haddo must find Margaret and rescue her before Haddo kills her as part of his ritual.
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Unluckily, one Oliver Haddo is among the med students observing the operation on Margaret. Haddo, described as a "Hypnotist, magician, and student of medicine", is studying medicine, not to really become a doctor, but to assist in his dark experiments in alchemy. Haddo in fact wants to "create life" through an alchemical ritual that requires, among other things, "the heart's blood of a maiden". He finds his victim in Margaret. Soon he has used his hypnotic powers to get Margaret to marry him and go away with him. Haddo Burdon must find Margaret and rescue her before Haddo kills her as part of his ritual.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Required for Haddo's ritual, which states that the VirginSacrifice must be done not just with any maiden, but "a maiden with fair skin, golden hair", and blue eyes. The blonde-haired blue-eyed virgin Margaret is the perfect candidate.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Required for EverybodyLovesBlondes: Haddo's ritual, which ritual states that the VirginSacrifice must be done not just with any maiden, but "a maiden with fair skin, golden hair", and blue eyes. The blonde-haired blue-eyed virgin Margaret is the perfect candidate.
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* VirginSacrifice: "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the creation of human life.
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* VirginSacrifice: "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the creation of human life. A line of dialogue has Margaret saying that she has been Haddo's wife "in name only", confirming that the marriage has been unconsummated and he has kept her a virgin, for the sacrifice.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The movie gets across that Margaret has never had sex with Haddo when she tells Arthur that "I have ''never been Haddo's wife''--we are married in name only." It seems that Haddo has to keep her a virgin for the VirginSacrifice.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The movie gets across that Margaret has never had sex with Haddo when she tells Arthur that "I have ''never been Haddo's wife''--we GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are married reading this in name only." It seems that Haddo has to keep her a virgin for the VirginSacrifice.future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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Not to be confused with the 1958 Creator/IngmarBergman film ''Ansiktet'', known as ''The Magician'' in the U.S.
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Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is a young woman in Paris who has already achieved success as a sculptor. One day her latest sculpture, a massive statue of a faun she is carving in clay, cleaves apart under its own weight and falls on her. She suffers a severe spinal injury. Luckily, visiting American surgeon Dr. Arthur Burdon is there in Paris and is able to operate on Margaret and save her from paralysis. He falls in love with his beautiful patient and, after she is discharged from the hospital, they get engaged.
Unluckily, one Oliver Haddo is among the med students observing the operation on Margaret. Haddo, described as a "Hypnotist, magician, and student of medicine", is studying medicine, not to really become a doctor, but to assist in his dark experiments in alchemy. Haddo in fact wants to "create life" through an alchemical ritual that requires, among other things, "the heart's blood of a maiden". He finds his victim in Margaret. Soon he has used his hypnotic powers to get Margaret to marry him and go away with him. Haddo must find Margaret and rescue her before Haddo kills her as part of his ritual.
The final act, in which Haddo goes to his lair at the top of a stone tower, and puts Margaret on a table while he and his little person assistant conduct the ritual to create new life, is ''very'' reminiscent in look and story to ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', made five years later.
Not to be confused with the 1958 Creator/IngmarBergman film ''Ansiktet'', known as ''The Magician'' in the U.S.
S. A young Creator/MichaelPowell worked as an assistant director.
Unluckily, one Oliver Haddo is among the med students observing the operation on Margaret. Haddo, described as a "Hypnotist, magician, and student of medicine", is studying medicine, not to really become a doctor, but to assist in his dark experiments in alchemy. Haddo in fact wants to "create life" through an alchemical ritual that requires, among other things, "the heart's blood of a maiden". He finds his victim in Margaret. Soon he has used his hypnotic powers to get Margaret to marry him and go away with him. Haddo must find Margaret and rescue her before Haddo kills her as part of his ritual.
The final act, in which Haddo goes to his lair at the top of a stone tower, and puts Margaret on a table while he and his little person assistant conduct the ritual to create new life, is ''very'' reminiscent in look and story to ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', made five years later.
Not to be confused with the 1958 Creator/IngmarBergman film ''Ansiktet'', known as ''The Magician'' in the U.
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* AmusementPark: Arthur takes Margaret to an amusement park, where they ride the rides and have fun before having a scary encounter with Haddo in a snake-charmer's tent.
* {{Balloonacy}}: A single balloon is enough to lift a man's bowler hat to the ceiling of a circus tent.
* AmusementPark: Arthur takes Margaret to an amusement park, where they ride the rides and have fun before having a scary encounter with Haddo in a snake-charmer's tent.
* {{Balloonacy}}: A single balloon is enough to lift a man's bowler hat to the ceiling of a circus tent.
* CollapsingLair: Haddo's stone tower where he was going to kill Margaret for use in a ritual collapses after her uncle sets fire to it.
* CreatorCameo: Assistant director Michael Powell appears as the silly man with a bowler hat in the audience at the snake charming act.
* CreditsGag: The opening credits call the film a "Metro-Goldwyn Picture", because director Rex Ingram hated Louis B. Mayer so much that he refused to put Mayer's name on his movie.
* CreatorCameo: Assistant director Michael Powell appears as the silly man with a bowler hat in the audience at the snake charming act.
* CreditsGag: The opening credits call the film a "Metro-Goldwyn Picture", because director Rex Ingram hated Louis B. Mayer so much that he refused to put Mayer's name on his movie.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: Of course we get a shot of the Eiffel Tower to establish that the first part of the movie takes place in Paris. We also get a shot of Cleopatra's Needle.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The movie gets across that Margaret has never had sex with Haddo when she tells Arthur that "I have ''never been Haddo's wife''--we are married in name only." It seems that Haddo has to keep her a virgin for the VirginSacrifice.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Required for Haddo's ritual, which states that the VirginSacrifice must be done not just with any maiden, but "a maiden with fair skin, golden hair", and blue eyes. The blonde-haired blue-eyed virgin Margaret is the perfect candidate.
* HypnoticEyes: Five years before Creator/BelaLugosi, Haddo uses his hypnotic stare to bind Margaret to his will. She becomes effectively his slave, unable to resist going to his home, then later marrying him and going away with him, even though she doesn't want to and knows he's going to kill her.
* LargeHam: Paul Wegener as Haddo ''really'' hams it up, with an intense bug-eyed stare practically all the time, especially when he is hypnotizing Margaret.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: It's said of Haddo that "He looks as if he had stepped out of a melodrama." Of course, he's actually in a melodrama.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: A weird-looking little person is Haddo's very Igor-like assistant during the final act when he's performing the ritual to create new life.
* MadScientist:Haddo.Haddo, who seeks to kill a young woman in order to invent some sort of Frankenstein creature.
* SnakeCharmer: Haddo demonstrates his mystical powers to Arthur and Margaret at the snake charmer's booth at the amusement park. He lets the snake bite him, and then uses magic to make the bite disappear.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: It's even more impressive when a little girl does the Russian squat dance, as shown in the Russian booth at the amusement park.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The movie gets across that Margaret has never had sex with Haddo when she tells Arthur that "I have ''never been Haddo's wife''--we are married in name only." It seems that Haddo has to keep her a virgin for the VirginSacrifice.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Required for Haddo's ritual, which states that the VirginSacrifice must be done not just with any maiden, but "a maiden with fair skin, golden hair", and blue eyes. The blonde-haired blue-eyed virgin Margaret is the perfect candidate.
* HypnoticEyes: Five years before Creator/BelaLugosi, Haddo uses his hypnotic stare to bind Margaret to his will. She becomes effectively his slave, unable to resist going to his home, then later marrying him and going away with him, even though she doesn't want to and knows he's going to kill her.
* LargeHam: Paul Wegener as Haddo ''really'' hams it up, with an intense bug-eyed stare practically all the time, especially when he is hypnotizing Margaret.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: It's said of Haddo that "He looks as if he had stepped out of a melodrama." Of course, he's actually in a melodrama.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: A weird-looking little person is Haddo's very Igor-like assistant during the final act when he's performing the ritual to create new life.
* MadScientist:
* SnakeCharmer: Haddo demonstrates his mystical powers to Arthur and Margaret at the snake charmer's booth at the amusement park. He lets the snake bite him, and then uses magic to make the bite disappear.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: It's even more impressive when a little girl does the Russian squat dance, as shown in the Russian booth at the amusement park.
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A 1926 film.
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* VirginSacrifice: "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the creation of human life.life.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A lot of horror movie cliches, but made them.
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1926 film.
* BloodMagic: One of the ingredients for the creation of human life is "the heart's blood of a maiden".
* BoundAndGagged: Margaret as Haddo prepares to take her blood.
* DepravedDwarf: The assistant to Haddo.
* MadScientist: Haddo.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A lot of horror movie cliches, but made them.
* VirginSacrifice: "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the creation of human life.
* BloodMagic: One of the ingredients for the creation of human life is "the heart's blood of a maiden".
* BoundAndGagged: Margaret as Haddo prepares to take her blood.
* DepravedDwarf: The assistant to Haddo.
* MadScientist: Haddo.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: A lot of horror movie cliches, but made them.
* VirginSacrifice: "The heart's blood of a maiden" is needed for the creation of human life.
