The Wizard (1927)
1h
Running Time
November 27, 1927Release Date
The Wizard (1927)
1h
Running Time
November 27, 1927Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Edmund Lowe
Stanley Gordon
Leila Hyams
Anne Webster
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Prof. Paul Coriolos
E.H. Calvert
Edwin Palmer
Barry Norton
Reginald Van Lear
Oscar Smith
Sam
Perlie Marshall
Detective Murphy
Norman Trevor
Judge Webster
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 27, 1927
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
silent film
based on novel or book
remake
Wiki.
The Wizard is a lost 1927 American mystery film directed by Richard Rosson. The film is based on the 1911 story Balaoo by Gaston Leroux. The film is about Dr. Paul Coriolos who has grafted a human face onto an ape, and sends it out to capture people and bring them back to his home to be tortured and killed. Reporter Stanley Gordon is booked to a write-up on the mystery, and finds that Anne Webster and her father have been mysteriously disappeared from their dinner home. Gordon follows the clues to discover them at Coriolos's home.
The film received mixed reviews on its release and is now considered a lost film.