Regie:
Tod BrowningDrehbuch:
Waldemar YoungKamera:
Ira H. MorganBesetzung:
Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, Mitchell Lewis, David Torrence, Gladys Hulette, DeWitt JenningsInhalte(1)
A fantastically atmospheric but rarely seen missing link in the development of Tod Browning’s artistry, set amid his favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic provides a striking showcase for silent-era diva Aileen Pringle, who sports a series of memorably outré looks (courtesy of art-deco designer Erté) as Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man (Conway Tearle), crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie séance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes. (Criterion)
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