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Conway Tearle and Gladys Hulette.
Frame enlargement: courtesy Jorge Finkielman.
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The Mystic
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6147 feet
Directed by Tod Browning
Cast: Aileen Pringle [Zara Jósnö], Conway Tearle [Michael Nash], Mitchell Lewis [‘Poppa’ Zazarack], Robert Ober [Anton], Stanton Heck [Carlo], David Torrence [James Bradshaw], Gladys Hulette [Doris Merrick], De Witt Jennings (DeWitt Jennings) [the inspector of police]; Carrie Daumery [a woman at the first seance], [?] Joseph Hazelton? [a sideshow spectator], [?] ? [Detective Grogan]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Tod Browning Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Waldemar Young, from a screen story by Tod Browning. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Hervey Libbert. Cinematography by Ira Morgan (Ira H. Morgan). Camera assistant, Willard Sheldon. Costume design by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff). Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 11 September 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP21824]. Premiered 30 August 1925 in New York, New York. Released 27 September 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The film may originally have been announced for release on 6 September 1925?
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the MGM/UA film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Dogs - Carnivals: Sideshows - Crime: Confidence games, Embezzlement - Criminals: Swindlers - Electricity - Equipment: Electrical - Gypsies - Hats: Top hats - Heiresses - Hungary - Knife-throwers - Law: Enforcement: Police: Inspectors - Money: Currency - Musical instruments: Guitars, Organs (Pump) - Mysticism: Mediums, Seances - Newspapers - Restaurants - Society - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Transportation: Wagons (Gypsy) - USA: New York: New York - Weapons: Knives
Listing updated: 14 December 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Eames-MGM p. 20; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 49; Kobal-Fifty p. 26 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Jorge Finkielman and David J. Skal.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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