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The Magician

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The Magician	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 1926 silent horror film directed by Rex Ingram.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. Burdon must find Margaret and rescue her before Haddo kills her as part of his ritual.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })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 Frankenstein, made five years later.Not to be confused with the 1958 Ingmar Bergman film Ansiktet, known as The Magician in the U.S. A young Michael Powell worked as an assistant director.
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The Magician / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Assistant director Michael Powell appears as the silly man with a bowler hat in the audience at the snake charming act.
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The Magician / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
The Magician / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: "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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The Magician / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
The Magician / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: 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.
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The Magician / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
The Magician / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: One of the ingredients for the creation of human life is "the heart's blood of a maiden".
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The Magician / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Magician / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Haddo, who seeks to kill a young woman in order to invent some sort of Frankenstein creature.
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The Magician / int_454e6cf5	type	Hypnotic Eyes
The Magician / int_454e6cf5	comment	Hypnotic Eyes: Five years before Bela Lugosi, 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.
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The Magician / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Magician / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: 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.
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The Magician / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Magician / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: 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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The Magician / int_66f59ad	type	Balloonacy
The Magician / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: A single balloon is enough to lift a man's bowler hat to the ceiling of a circus tent.
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The Magician / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Magician / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Paul Wegener as Haddo really hams it up, with an intense bug-eyed stare practically all the time, especially when he is hypnotizing Margaret.
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The Magician / int_96d1b224	type	Little People Are Surreal
The Magician / int_96d1b224	comment	Little People Are Surreal: 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.
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The Magician / int_c3c91506	type	Depraved Dwarf
The Magician / int_c3c91506	comment	Depraved Dwarf: The assistant to Haddo.
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The Magician / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
The Magician / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: Haddo's stone tower where he was going to kill Margaret for use in a ritual collapses after her uncle sets fire to it.
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The Magician / int_d058677e	type	Amusement Park
The Magician / int_d058677e	comment	Amusement Park: 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.
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The Magician / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
The Magician / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Margaret as Haddo prepares to take her blood.
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The Magician / int_ed51d0	type	That Russian Squat Dance
The Magician / int_ed51d0	comment	That Russian Squat Dance: 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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The Magician / int_f66813c9	type	Snake Charmer
The Magician / int_f66813c9	comment	Snake Charmer: 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.
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