Genre Fantasy

A Lover’s Oath

“The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe” (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).

Maya the Bee

Maya the Bee is a dramatised documentary film displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on the book by Waldemar Bonsels, he also assisted himself in cinematography, along with A.O. Weitzenberg. The film was restored…

The Magician

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple…

The Carnival Man

Ein Maler, dem Ruhm und Reichtum versagt blieben, geht auf einen Handel ein: Er kauft eine mumifizierte Handreliquie, die ihm alles bringt, was er bisher entbehren musste – auch die Liebe einer Frau. Doch der Preis ist hoch: Seine Seele…

Hell-Bound Train

A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

Charros, gauchos y manolas

The magazine “Paintings of the People” initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with…

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