THE MAGICIAN
Starring Alice Terry and Paul Wegener
MOTION PICTURE
January 1927
Talk about menace! If you want to see it at its wickedest, go to Rex Ingram's latest. Every once in a while Ingram takes time out from his Art to have a little fun. This is the first time he's done it since "Trifling Women." And altho the result isn't quite so deliriously thrilling as that ominous trifle, owing to the absence of young Novarro, still it is remarkably good entertainment of the more gruesome character, told in terms of menace rather than mystery. The first half is done in the best Ingram style, stamped with the wayward personality and highly flavored humor of that amaing genleman. Later on he becomes involved in another of those Sorcerer's Towers, and there the events become too ordinary and the setttings too utterly fantastic, to be convincing. Alice Terry is as calm but perhaps not quite so beautiful as usual. Ivan Petrovitch is an adequate hero, only faintly reminiscent of Conway Tearle. And Paul Wegener gives a remarkable performance as the mad Magician, doubly terrifying because he avoids all the obvious and traditional methods of being so. The picture is beautifully mounted, as Ingram's always are.
THE MAGICIAN
Starring Alice Terry and Paul Wegener
PHOTOPLAY
January 1927
Disappointing stuff from a once great director, this latest Rex Ingram production is entertainment only if the morbid and unhealthy are of interest to you. Adapted from a story by Somerset Maugham, it tells of Margaret Dauncy, who has been a nice gal except for a magician's evil eye. The cast, with the exception of Alice Terry, who gives a colorless performance, is a foreign as the backgrounds. Decidedly not for children.
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