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Allen, although finally looking his age, is at the top of his game as low-brow magician Sidney Waterman.
Something happens to Sondra Pransky when she enters the magician's box on the stage of a London theater.
Basically the exact same movie as "House of Wax" - Vincent Price's first genuine horror hit released the previous year - but seriously who cares, because "The Mad Magician" offers just as many sheer thrills, delightful period set-pieces, joyous 3-D effects, sublime acting performances and macabre horror gimmicks as its predecessor!
(Well, one out of four ain't bad...) A no-talent magician with an eye for showmanship (Max) watches a very skilled pickpocket (Hugo) plying his trade in New York.
After convincing Hugo that he (Max) is a) mental and b) desperately in need of a partner to make his dreams of being a stage magician come alive, the not-so-dynamic duo enlist the managerial expertise of an inventor of illusions (Milo) and the, ah, gentler attributes of a lovely waitress (Lydia).
There's an evil magician, a pretty princess, a djinn and everybody lives happily ever after.
A stage magician, the ever-loathsome Jack Cassidy, sneaks away in mid-act while supposedly hidden in a locked box and snuffs his partner and blackmailer, Nehemia Persoff.
Mainly notable as Bela Lugosi's only film in color (he's actually quite good as a magician), it's narrated by a corpse (could it have influenced SUNSET BOULEVARD [1950]?) - however, judging by the absurd split-second flashes to the body on the morgue slab every once in a while, the film-makers apparently thought the audiences constantly needed to be reminded of this novelty!
I don't know but a magician who kills a person in a murder-mystery has some formulaic sound over it.
The Great Santini (Jack Cassidy) is a brilliant stage magician with a hidden past.
None-the-less, the prestige, is not a description of an illusion's parts, but rather the remains left of the magician who has transported himself via the Tesla device which, apparently, does work.
Before that, Chaplin shows his genius (not an overused term for him!) in a beautifully timed house of mirrors sequence, a riotous destruction of a magician's disappearance-trick (Charley, hiding from the police, is already in the compartment in which the beautiful girl is supposed to materialize), and an even funnier sequence in which Charley releases rabbits, piglets, and pigeons from the magician's table.
In this one, Cassidy plays a famous magician who murders a blackmailing magic club owner.
H.G. Lewis tried to top "Blood Feast" with this somewhat creative clunker about a magician who saws people in half-- literally.
When the magician began causing such rampant sin and perversion as his granted freedom gave way to lascivious appetites, those religious townpeople, who haven't succumb to the lusts of the flesh decide to hang him on a wooden cross in the middle of a cornfield, later burning his bones & burying them in a tomb.
A magic show can only mean disaster for poor Charlie Brown and his friends, especially when Snoopy is the magician.
Partridge"), Jack Cassidy is at his 70's best in his role as "The Great Santini" - a secret ex-Nazi living under an assumed name in America and master magician whose silky arrogance and ego is his ultimate undoing.
1970 was a good year for children's sci-fi; Jon Pertwee donned frilly shirt and cloak to become the third 'Dr.Who', while over on the other channel Michael Mackenzie battled evil as the enigmatic magician 'Tarot' in 'Ace Of Wands'.
I think this is my favorite Columbo episode with him as a magician with a secret, he was a Nazi in Germany during World War II.
Devin wants it converted over to a bed and breakfast, but the sadistic ghost of his late uncle, a former stage magician, keeps killing off whoever enters.
But these spy things are always a bit like that, tough to make because they are kind of cheap magician tricks, what do you show and what do you hide and if you hide too much its boring or confusing and you show too much and there is not a mystery.
Like many a magician, Chaplin didn't want his secrets getting out.
The man was The Amazing Asimov, a Las Vegas magician.
The basic plot is obvious enough: magician has magic book, does bad thing, gets amnesia.
A beautiful princess, courted by royal suitors, is desired by a powerful Mongol magician.
All the white people are horrible, and the Taoist magician from Mr. Vampire rides an ostrich and saves the day, basically.
Things however become more complicated when another woman comes to the mansion claiming to be Doris Waverly (arriving with her vaudeville partner, the Great Lavelle- a magician).
Michael Angelis was actually quite good in the main role, and Elvis Costello was amusing in his cameo appearance as a daft magician.
The acting was dismal and other than than the other guy magician, so was the magic.
I am a magician so I was really excited about this movie and couldn't wait to see some magic but it was so not entertaining.
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