Waxworks (1924) 1/9

Directed by Paul Leni & Leo Birinski Emil Jannings - Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad Conrad Veidt - Ivan the Terrible Werner Krauss - Jack the Ripper/Spring-heeled Jack William Dieterle - The Poet The owner of a waxworks ask a young writer to create a back story for three of the museums most popular attractions the wax figures of an exuberant late 8th century Persian caliph, Harun al-Rashid, the tyrannical Russian Tzar Ivan the Terrible, and Victorian legend, Spring-heeled Jack (also ...