Al-Rashid then resolves to go out that night, incognito, and visit the beauty. After being captivated by her beauty and also captivating her with his status among the royals, he returns to tell Al-Rashid that he does not have the baker's head but rather something better – news about the baker's wife. He sends his Grand Vizier to find the man, Assad, but in doing so, he finds Assad's wife with whom he is enchanted. Smoke from Assad's bakery covers the front of the palace, where Al-Rashid loses a game of chess, leading him to want the head of the baker. The poet sees himself in his story as a pie baker, Assad, where he lives with his wife Maimune (played by Olga Belajeff) directly by the walls of the palace where Harun Al-Rashid lives. With his daughter by his side, the poet notices that the arm of Harun al-Rashid is missing and writes a story incorporating the missing arm. The proprietor hires the poet to write a back-story for his wax models of Harun al-Rashid (Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Veidt), and Jack the Ripper (Krauss) in order to draw an audience to the museum. Ī young nameless poet (Dieterle) enters a wax museum where the proprietor works in the company of his daughter Eva (Olga Belajeff). Some references list German screenwriter/producer Leo Birinski as a co-director, co-producer and editor of the film. Leni died of blood poisoning on 2 September 1929 at age 44. This film would be director Paul Leni's last film made in Germany before he went on to make The Cat and the Canary (1927) in the United States. The 1924 silent film supposedly inspired a 1988 "remake" of sorts, Waxwork, but "any similarity between the two ends there." The film was also known as Three Wax Men. Critic Troy Howarth mentions "Of all the later horror anthologies, it seems to have had the most direct effect on Amicus' Torture Garden (1968), which reused the waxworks motif". The film's format may have influenced later horror anthologies such as the British Dead of Night (1945) and the Italian Black Sabbath (1963) by Mario Bava.
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Its stories are linked by a plot thread about a writer ( William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad ( Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible ( Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper ( Werner Krauss) in order to boost business. The film encompasses several genres, including a fantasy adventure, a historical film, and a horror film through its various episodes. Waxworks ( German: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni.
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