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The Red Spectre

19079 minFrance
FantasyHorror

Synopsis

A demonic magician performs inside a strange grotto, but a benevolent spirit interrupts his control. The opposing figures turn the display of tricks into a contest between supernatural powers.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
8:23
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsSegundo de Chomón

Behind the scenes

Chomón's stencil-coloured film combines a Gothic setting with visual transformations. It is a separate work from Satan s'amuse, with which it has sometimes been confused.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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