Benjamin Christensen
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A former opera singer, Danish director Benjamin Christensen acted in and directed stage shows before entering films as an actor in 1906. Making an impressive debut as a director/star six years later with the erotic suspense thriller Det... more
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Cast: Lionel Barrymore Benjamin Christensen Maurice Tourneur Montagu Love Lloyd Hughes   
Tags: Adventure Drama Master Criminal Films Adventure Science Fiction 
Length: 95min
Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular filmization. Lionel Barrymore plays an altruistic scientist who has built an underground city, hoping to use the modernistic devices...

Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Cast: Benjamin Christensen Thelma Todd Creighton Hale Louise Fazenda Ernest Haller   
Tags: Supernatural Horror Mystery Psychological Thriller 
Length: 60min
In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is swiped from a reception at the latter's home, the daughter and her sweetheart begin looking for it. As they drive to the police,...

Cast: Benjamin Christensen Thelma Todd Flora Finch Montagu Love Chester Conklin   
Tags: Parody/Spoof Haunted House Film Comedy 
Length: 65min
This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached Chester Conklin and scrawny Flora Finch. A parody of the "old dark house" melodramas then in vogue, the film is chock full of hidden...

Cast: Lon Chaney Benjamin Christensen Ricardo Cortez Mack Swain Erich Pommer   
Tags: Drama Historical Film 
Length: 75min
One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted Russian peasant. On the verge of starvation, Chaney is hired to guide a beautiful countess (Barbara Bedford) through the...

Cast: Norma Shearer Benjamin Christensen Claire McDowell John Miljan Carmel Myers   
Length: 74min
Celebrated Danish director Benjamin Christensen made his American movie debut with the 1925-26 Norma Shearer vehicle The Devil's Circus. Shearer plays Mary, a circus trapeze artist who is inexorably sucked into the marital travails of lion-tamer Hugo...

Cast: Carl Theodor Dreyer Benjamin Christensen Walter Slezak Erich Pommer Rudolph Maté   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 96min
Filmed in 1924 by the brilliant Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer, the German drama Michael (Mikael) was released in the U.S. three years later under the more lurid title Chained. It was subsequently reissued as The Story of the Third Sex, an...

Cast: Benjamin Christensen William S. Burroughs Astrid Holm Maren Pedersen Clara Pontoppidan   
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 
Length: 74min
Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's obsession with bizarre lighting effects reached its apotheosis with his 1922 masterpiece Häxan. Beginning in a deceptively sedate fashion with a series of woodcuts and engravings (a technique later adopted by...

Cast: Benjamin Christensen   
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama 
Length: min
Directed by Benjamin Christensen, who would later become quite notable, this Danish silent film was a classic romantic melodrama about an escaped criminal who "steals" his own child from an orphanage before seeking refuge at a nearby manor home. The...

Det Hemmelighedsfulde X (1914)
Cast: Benjamin Christensen   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: min
One modern critic termed this classic of the Danish silent screen, "a bad story translated into moving pictures with a visual energy that still commands respect." Directed by future Hollywood emigre Benjamin Christensen, Det Hemmelighedsfulde X told a...

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