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Waxworks

6.4 83 mins Fantasy   Horror   1924
Neptune-Film A.G.  
Director(s): Leo Birinski Paul Leni

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.

Casts of Waxworks

Emil Jannings

as Harun al Raschid

Conrad Veidt

as Ivan the Terrible

William Dieterle

as The Poet / Assad the Baker / Russian Prince

Werner Krauss

as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack

Olga Belajeff

as Eva-Maimune-Eine Bojarin

John Gottowt

as Owner of the Waxworks

Georg John

as Owner of the Panoptikums

Ernst Legal

as Poison-Maker of the Czar

Paul Biensfeldt

as Grand Vizier

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