List of the best Paul Leni movies: The Man Who Laughs(1928), The Cat and the Canary(1927), Waxworks(1924) ... ...
Drama
USA
1928
124 Minutes
Director
Conrad Veidt Mary Philbin Olga Baclanova Josephine Crowell George Siegmann Brandon Hurst Sam De Grasse Stuart Holmes Cesare Gravina Nick De Ruiz Edgar Norton
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.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1927
75 Minutes
Director
Laura La Plante Creighton Hale Forrest Stanley Tully Marshall Flora Finch Gertrude Astor Lucien Littlefield Arthur Edmund Carewe Martha Mattox George Siegmann
nephew niece lawyer guard doctor killer chilling tense creepy intricate mansion new york state haunted houses inheritance insanity greed murder rivalry escape 1920s
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Horror
Germany
1924
60 Minutes
Director
Emil Jannings Leo Birinsky Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss William Dieterle
wax museum owner daughter poet caliph ivan the terrible jack the ripper creepy dreamy germany baghdad moscow london wax museum revenge bloodlust paranoia love revenge wretched excess escape
A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.